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Shower Flowers


I brought these amazing dahlias home from my daughter-in-law’s baby shower and had fun painting them. Below are some of the steps in the painting process. I always seem to like the earliest stages of a painting best…

Dahlias-Shower Flowers, oil on panel, 10x8 in
Dahlias: Shower Flowers, oil on panel, 10×8 in (Click image to enlarge)

I brought these amazing dahlias home from my daughter-in-law’s baby shower and had fun painting them. (The painting is available here.) The baby shower happened just in time as our beautiful baby girl came a month early (so exciting!). Below are some of the steps in the process. I always seem to like the earliest stages of a painting best; my biggest challenge is to stop painting sooner than I usually do. I have a new system for setting an intention and goal for each painting and each painting session and documenting the results and I’ll be sharing more about that in my next post.