My paintings reflect my rural lifestyle, and in particular, are about the everyday scenes we often overlook, or are too busy to appreciate. Often I am inspired by my flower beds with their large assortment of perennial flowers. Sometimes, it is a shaft of sunlight on a single flower, a patch of wild flowers, country mail boxes, grazing cattle and sheep or distant silos. Often, it is the more subtle beauty of clouds over the fields, lakes, and rivers of the country side. It could also be a house plant, or just some items left on a sunny table! As my appreciation of these everyday scenes has grown, so has my desire to capture these moments, and share them with others. To accomplish this, I do on site sketching or painting and taking photographs. Then I use this information to develop the composition and plan the color scheme for my paintings. For my transparent watercolor paintings, I usually work from light to dark, and back to front, except for flowers where I like to do the blossoms first before they wilt! Occasionally, I use some masking to preserve white paper, then I let the paint blend wet into wet, and add some dry brush work for final details.
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