Thursday, April 29, 2010

redwings in tulips
22" x 26" oil on wood
Our tulips were so beautiful this year, and always so welcome after our dreary wet winters. I painted these tulips out in my garden, then brought the painting into the studio to paint the redwing blackbirds. I sent this painting with Merrie French today for Valley Arts bird show. I made a nice frame for it out of 2" radiata pine. I oiled the pine and it came up a nice deep yellow that echoes the tulips.
I kind of wasn't ready to let it go. I guess I never am.

2 comments:

helen said...

Like the bird among the tulips. Both must be long gone by now!

Janette Kearns Wilson said...

How lovely to see such colour and energy in your work, it is so jolly