Is it truly now on the way?
Farm Eggs 16"x16" oil on board Lin Anne Misja Fiore
I love April. Don't you? Sweet soft fresh soil,wafts of which drift through newly opened windows. Tiny buds on limbs struggling to embrace the warming air,the strengthening sunshine. These are the things that bring an artist to renewed life. I am so excited to paint this spring. All around me are swelling hills, greening with new grass, damp-wooded barns warming in new sunlight, vineyards blossoming into life. I have managed to do at least one flowering tree a year for several years now. I try to catch the delicacy of spring flowers before they are mysteriously gone. The skies,now "blued up", as my son describes it, call to me to paint the fluffs of pinkened white dotting them as the day sky turns to late afternoon.
Come along on my spring painting journey.
Soon the Fairy Roses will bloom (as in above painting).
The days are lengthening. The oil paints are saying, "Squeeze us right now"!!! Ha! New paint on my palette to match the new brightening colors around me. Ok.
Above painting notes: I love fairy roses. The bushes bloom and bloom with sprays of small roses. I love quilts and antique pots and bowls. This one,a turquoise coffee pot is one of my favorites. I love the glow of color it casts on the soft patina of an aged quilt. It was fun to capture the bumpy puffiness of the quilt fabric as it falls off the table. I like how the eggs are not quite stable. I almost changed this and then decided not to. Are they comfortable there on their home of soft cotton or are they ready to tumble as a Cezanne piece of fruit might. For me, this is the one tension in an otherwise very peaceful still life. Serenity and a bit of tension are both essential. I call it "enegized tranquility".
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