18×23 watercolor 23×28 framed This piece was inspired by a trip to the Carrizo Plains this spring during the amazing super bloom in California. It was truly spectacular! I’ve featured …
Toxic Tango IV: Fateful Flowers
Beautiful, toxic flowers abound in the plant kingdom. Many are very familiar garden varieties that many folks would never suspect as being dangerous. They appear in bouquets in our homes, …
Tropical Paradise
4’x8′ watercolor Tropical Paradise is the largest painting I’ve ever done. It’s 4 feet wide by 8 feet long, and filled with tropical plants, birds and butterflies. It was done …
Summer ’90
22×30 watercolor A profusion of summer garden flowers! I painted this floral watercolor in the summer of 1990. I only used flowers from my garden, but they weren’t all blooming at …
Orchids in Blue
15×22 watercolor This watercolor of cymbidium orchids was inspired from live plants. I began by sketching orchids growing in a half-barrel planter in my yard. I took a few photos to …
Red Petals
30×22 pastel “Red Petals” is a blown-up view of intensely red gerbera daisy flower petals. I chose the dark green as a background color to offset the red, which is so very …
Two Dragons
22×30 pastel These two red dragons are, of course, snapdragons. At this size, though, with their odd faces and manes, they reminded me more of some type of mythical, floral …
Purple Majesty
22×30 pastel A purple iris bloomed in my front garden. Such a purple! It was incredibly rich, deep and velvety. I wanted to capture that color. It took many different …
Purple Lisianthus
22×30 watercolor The first time I ever grew a purple lisianthus in my garden, I was amazed at how beautiful it was. I tried to capture the essence of it …
Violet Jade Gems
22×30 watercolor This lovely purple orchid plant was a birthday gift from my parents one year. I knew the flowers wouldn’t last forever, and I probably wouldn’t be able to …
Mandavilla Magic
22×30 pastel A mandavilla vine grows on my garden wall. I chose to use pastels for this painting to take advantage of the saturation of pigment in that medium. There …
Two Faces: Pansy & Geranium
24×30 oil pastel This large close-up focuses on the intricacies and “faces” of two flowers from the garden- a pansy and a geranium blossom. Published in Floral Birthday Calendar by Carlina …
Rose
9×12 watercolor I painted this rose watercolor as a demonstration for an art class when my daughter was in high school.