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Garden and Hibiscus Update

I want to take you around my garden for a walk. Come see a few of the goodies that are growing. First a stop at the Plumeria plant that is in the second season waiting to bloom, the Plumeria has such beautiful foilage. I can't wait to see the flower and smell it's beautiful frangrance.

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to the right of the Plumeria are some yellow and orange daisy plants, and lavender in the front. Below is a top view of the Plumeria, I have to repot the Plumeria this weekend so it has more room to grow.

Below is my Russian Sage surrounded by mint, lemon sage and oregano with latrice shoots in back. The Latrice have beautiful purple flowers stalks!!

A cucumber flower!! mmmm... soon it will be a cucumber salad everyday for a month or two, followed by canning cucumber pickles!!!

Blueberries!! This is a four year old plant that gives us about a quart of berries. I planted three more berry plants this year because I love blueberry pancakes in the winter!!!

Lastly, I am happy to report that I am almost finished with my Yellow Hibiscus and it won't be long till I have it hung in my bedroom or hallway. I want to paint a series of Hibiscus and Plumeria flowers. I love the way I feel when I look at these flowers, maybe it's the "Déjà vu" of Hawaiin Island scents and trade winds. These flowers always make me feel cheerful and energetic!!!

I will take you around on more garden walks when the weather co-operates soon! Until then happy picking!!!

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Hibiscus Fever

I want to do series of tropical flowers on a large scale. I drafted out a Hibiscus on a 12 x 12 gallery wrapped canvas with acrylics. Then I will refine the flower and leaves with oils. I hope to finish this by Monday July 4th!! Wish me luck!!! Have a great weekend out there. I hear the sun is going to shine!!!

Blogpost Update

Hi everyone, I was able to figure out how to get the "followers" and "comment" issues resolved!!!!! I had to do a google upgrade to "Google Chrome". Don't be alarmed when the directions state this will replace your homepage. You can always reset your home page. It's pretty easy. Just go to google chrome and upgrade!! Then sign in your account and type a comment, put the title of your page as the id and hit enter. Voila!! All the great functions of Blogger will return like magic!!! Give it a try.
Good Luck, Georgina

PAINT BOX: Sunday in the Garden with Art

PAINT BOX: Sunday in the Garden with Art: "sunday was a glorious day at the south shore botanical garden. 'Women Artists of Kauai' had a show and sale at the garden and the weather co..."

June Painting Notes

My daughter posted a picture of her canoe and I thought it would make a great painting to give her for her birthday. I'm in the process of glazing in the shadows and working on getting the color right on the trees. I have to redo the water on the lower left and reglazing the reflection. What do you think? Maybe I'm glazing and using too much oil!!!

My art instructor loves events of the Civil war. He makes statues of both Confederate and Union Soldiers and gives us a history lesson on the era while we paint. During the last session he became obsessed with painting Abraham Lincoln.  A town in CT had a Lincoln painting stolen that was painted by John Denison Crocker in honor of Lincoln's March 1860 visit to Norwich. The frame stood empty in City Hall until the town decided to have an art contest to see if the painting of Lincoln could be reproduced by a lucky artists to again hang in City Hall. The grand prize was $8,000. Marc entered the contest and was one of the 10 or so lucky artists who made it to the finals, but through some controvesy and disappointment of many artist who submitted their paintings in anticipation, didn't win.

To get a more compelling story you can read about this at  Artist's re-creation of Lincoln painting earns $8,000 prize . Any way...point being Marc started painting a collection of other Civil War soldiers and Lincoln.

                                 Marc's copy of John Denison Crockers 1860 painting of Lincoln

                                  Marc's traditional portrait of Lincoln painted after the Crocker one above

Marc working on Geneal Sherman

Oh and this is so cute! A new student on her third week who never "painted" before wanted to paint a pug! I think she is closet painter!! What a great job she did! She only paints in acyrlic and can't be swayed yet to paint with oil. We'll see if we can pursuade her before the end of the term!!

June happenings!