New paintings, hot off the easel, and some thoughts on art and life ...

I just ended the third month in my goal to paint flowers from my garden every weekday for a year. One of my recent favorites is this piece, White Primroses. I think of it as part of a set. I painted "Red Primroses" first, but I had several colors of these flowers in the garden, so I decided to paint two more in the same size. Here's how they look together. They're unframed at the moment, but you get the idea. More of my flower paintings are here on my website.

I've done sets of paintings before. The three still life paintings "Morning," "Afternoon" and "Late Night" were created to be a series. These three have a suggestion of story in them and I may expand on that idea in a new set of paintings. Right now I'm having fun painting flowers, but I do like story paintings (like "Centered" and "Blue in the Pink Kitchen"), and I think I'll be getting back to that kind of work this year.