Roses and Flamingos

A day with Day Lilies!

 This week Began a new painting adventure. Day Lilies! Steve planted 100 of them along with 100 hostas two years ago to create a border alon...

Monday, September 26, 2016

Sun Kissed

Noticing how the sun gently kisses and illuminates whatever it touches, has become a real fascination for me.  So much so that I'm creating paintings and lesson plans for a series of watercolor classes in October.

Sunrises and sunsets are magical moments for catching glimpses of glory reflected.  A few weeks ago I got up before sun rise and headed out with my little Sony point and shoot camera to capture the sun's rays on Indiana corn fields. As I waited on a mound of dirt that elevated me above the tops of the corn, I positioned myself for those first rays with great anticipation.  I was rewarded with some wonderful photos for painting studies.

There was another early morning photo shoot in my little garden, as I watched the sun gently kiss and illuminate the zenias, the hostas, the morning glories and even my tomato plant leaves.

Of course, I have photos of sunsets on the Pacific and sunrises on the Atlantic from this summer - always dramatic.

From time to time I write haiku's to condense and express my thoughts about something.  As I was swimming my laps in the pool, I wrote a haiku that I forgot to write down when I got home.  But I did reconstruct another one.
                  Sun Kissed
Sun rise  sun set  glow
Gent ly kiss ing cre-a-tion
Re veal ing Glo ry.

So, here are some of the paintings I've enjoyed working on trying to capture the essence of the sun's kiss.

Sun Kissed Corn
Sun Kissed Corn 2


Glorious Web


Autumn Blaze

Salisbury Beach Sunrise


Salisbury Beach Sunrise #2 in progress  - trying to capture a bit more of the atmosphere I felt, not as dark as the first one, still in process

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