I always plant morning glories and have a special affection for them as I always planted them when I was a child on a farm in Ohio…they just need to be soaked and nicked and planted and then wait and wait and magic! Here in North Carolina it is sometimes tricky…mostly because I have a landscape person who wacks down everything that looks like a weed and these definitely look like weedy vines until the flowers take hold…

Did I mention that my dear friend Max took all of these photos..with the help of my son Austin…I simply have no patience or follow through…even putting this on a blog is a tedious proces which takes lots of time…and WINE!!!

You can begin to see that I really am working on a patchwork…of my emotions…I get bored quickly so flowers are the perfect venue for me to do a big series…

guess what flower this is???(clue…it’s not a flower…it is a painting…gotcha!

So now I need to try white…it is more difficult to get drama so I attempt to do so with the shapes…I used gold and it really livened it up!

a pink hibiscus was the inspiration for this…I am in Florida painting outside on my patio because you really need ventilation when doing encaustics…the perk is I get to watch boats go by while I paint.

So I decided I needed some yellow flowers and I honestly have a flower book and I just flipped through it until I came upon a flower that I liked…then I closed in and made interesting shapes so the painting can be viewed as an abstract…these are all very smooth and just crave to be touched!

Poppies are my favorite!! (not really…they are all my favorite) but when I was working on this series it seemed that all my first 7 flowers that i chose to paint were RED! These are all 1’x1′ painted on encausticboard/cradled board–2″ deep.

This is the beginning…a fern..have you seen how they are all curled up and mysterious…and then they open!

SOOOO…I haven’t blogged in a while…BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN PAINTING!!! So I decided to do a series on flowers…because I love flowers as a subject..and it is a challenge to not create something that has been a subject for painters for EVER…so I did them in encaustics…each of these pieces is 1’x1’…I will download them each seperately but I wanted to show what they look like together….a real garden….