The Flowers are Blooming

 I spent most of yesterday in my back yard planting, weeding and gearing up for spring flowers. It's rare to find a rainless Saturday to tidy up the yard as spring is arriving. Today I am resting from all of the work done yesterday-and it's raining. 

Flowers are the most amazing plants. How incredible it is for a plant to display such vibrant colors in the most beautiful shapes. Not only that, but they produce nectar for our pollinators. To celebrate flowers, I made a 'book' of some of my favorites. This has been a work in progress for several years and today I finally finished it. Please enjoy the short video of my first completed 'book'.

Rosy-Bee in gouache

The final of four in my Flowers and Friends series. Rosy-Bee bumbles around the large pink rose buzzing in bliss. I have at least a half-dozen rose bushes growing in my tiny yard to bring in the sweet honeybees. Painted on canvas board in gouache.

Butter-Lips in gouache

This is the 3rd of my Flowers and Friends series featuring a bright red tulip being kissed by a monarch butterfly. I find monarch butterflys to be one of the most beautiful creatures of our earth, and always feel enchanted when I see one. Gouache on canvas board.

Dragon-Lily in gouache

This is number 2 in my Flowers and Friends series. The purple calla lily is an exquisite flower, and I'm growing it my yard, because why not? The day I saw a dragon fly land on one of the deep purple petals gave me inspiration for this painting. Very pleased with how this came out, and is now framed in my living room. 

Just flowers

Sometimes you just need to color, and flowers to me are the most fun to draw and color. These fill up a folded panoramic journal and are flowers I intend on growing this season. After winter, I'm pretty flower crazy, it's all I think about. Until they sprout life in my garden, I will just have to draw them instead.