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If you love orchids, head down to the U.S. Botanical Garden before April 11 and enjoy their exhibit Orchids: A Cultural Odyssey, which features more than 2,000 orchids! Casey and I finally made it down this past weekend to enjoy the indoor garden and boy were we in for a treat! What a beautiful sight to be surrounded by thousands of orchids! I love orchids and my family has always had orchids, even grandparents and Aunts and Uncles. [...]
For those who follow the Studio knows I do art for LiveLikeYou.com. The soon-to-launch shopping site will feature renderings of the rooms on LiveLikeYou and I add watercolor to these renderings! Get a sneakpeak of what this process looks like - from start to finish - on LiveLikeYou's blog!
I attended the the 17th Annual Knock Out Abuse Against Women Annual fundraising gala in Washington, D.C. recently. What an event! I had donated my “Closed Tulip III” to the silent auction and had the honor of attending as the co-founder's, Jill Sorensen, guest! Standing next to my darling, "Closed Tulip III," which is the painting I donated to Knock Out Abuse. The proceeds of the painting went to benefit women and children of domestic abuse. (sorry for [...]
{StyleMePretty.com} Your wedding is beautiful, timeless, and something you’ll remember for the rest of your life. Your memories of that special day are so important, no matter how you choose to capture them. Imagine a custom piece of art featuring your bouquet at its most beautiful, turning that beautiful day into something more…a keepsake for you and your family to treasure as it lights up your home and dazzles your family and friends. Getting married? Celebrating an anniversary? [...]
Well, MOI is not exactly featured but my art work is! The new online magazine of Traditional Home and Lonny, "TRADhome," featured Jill Sorensen and her upcoming design site LiveLikeYou.com recently and one of my renderings is included in the piece! YAY! {see the top pic? It's my watercolor rending of Jill's Modern Bachelor living room. It's just one of many style personalities that will be offered on her interior design shopping site} Check out Jill's blog post [...]
{acrylic in progress} I'm still trying to finish this pink explosion of ranunculus. The goal was to have it done by this past weekend but my birthday 'got in the way' so it just had to wait. It's getting there and I may have it done later this afternoon. It's feels like it's taking too long even though I haven't spent too many hours on it. I guess it's just one of those projects that feels like they'll [...]
{Three is company: Mirja's Bridal Bouquet (24x24), Royal Bridal Bouquet (24x18) and Caroline's Bridal Bouquet (18x18)} It's not often I have three bridal bouquets in the studio at the same time, so Casey snapped this photo of before I was heading out to watch Chris Botti at Wolf Trap yesterday. I always find it helpful to see a painting next to a person or a piece of furniture you know the size of (my chair). What also is [...]
{Adding some shading to the yellow gerberas on Keri's Bridal Bouquet} Don't you just get lost in that middle gerbera? I do. I love how the light hits some of the petals and how the shading creates a depth to it. This is my view when I paint. I sit on my chair, indian style and with my face only a foot away from the canvas. Sometimes when I'm doing very detailed work my nose almost touches the [...]
