Good Eggs!

"Good Eggs"   8" x 8"  $225 Framed

Here's another Redmond Farmer's Market watercolor. This is a fun little one, only 8 inches square.

I've been buying these eggs from Sky Valley Family Farms for several summers now. They are so fresh and tasty and have these rich dark yellow yolks. It makes such a difference when the chickens can run around and eat what they like!

The variety of warm colors in the chicken eggs is so wonderful! When I began the painting, I was thinking the eggs were just different shades of brown. As soon I began mixing colors, I was surprised to learn that the eggs were flesh-tones loaded with pink. I especially like that each egg is one-of-a-kind instead of something uniform and mass produced. And I loved this setting with the old-fashioned tablecloths.

June Art Events

June 14, 15, & 16 is the Edmonds Arts Festival! Did you know this is the 57th Annual Edmonds Arts Festival? Honestly, the Edmonds Arts Festival is one of the largest and best in the region and not to be missed! In addition to the wonderful outside art booths, there is an excellent juried art show inside the Frances Anderson Center on the same site. My painting, "Within the Willow" will be in the juried show, so be sure and stop by! For my original blog post on this painting click here.

Saturday, June 15 is the Museum of Northwest Art Auction in La Conner, Washington! This will be the 5th year in a row that I have had a painting in the auction and probably the 8th year I've attended the auction!

This is such a very fun event! Although tickets aren't cheap, the food and wine are fabulous. And, if you are interesting in purchasing art, you will certainly save yourself the price of admission on the deals you get purchasing artwork. Plus, you're supporting an organization that does so much for Northwest artists! My watercolor painting "Lilypond Reflections" is available in the auction.  To see my original blog post about this painting click here. To preview the complete online catalog for the auction click here. My painting is on page 22.


I also want to mention that this week my blog is two years old! This is my 84th post in the past two years! My blog has grown from a handful of wonderful supportive family members to over 200 viewers per month! I am so very grateful to each one of you who read this blog and follow my artwork! I am so thankful to you for your support in my crazy art career and so honored that you are with me on the journey! Thank you!

Men with Flowers

"Men with Flowers"  18" x 24"  $750 Framed  

Opening day, May 4 at the Redmond Farmer's Market was such a beautiful spring day! The vendors were all happy to be there, the Redmond High School Band played, and the atmosphere was so festive!

The flower sellers had buckets and buckets of such beautiful tulips! I took a ton of photos, but this image really captured my imagination. The spring morning light raking across the tulips was lovely, and it was so charming how these handsome guys were hard at work arranging bunches of flowers to sell. Maybe I just have a soft spot for men bearing flowers. :)

Several people have asked why leave the pick up truck in there so prominently? The pick up is such a perfectly masculine icon! I think it reinforces the contrast of the manly men and the delicate flowers. Plus the dark blue with the glowing yellow light is just delicious!

I hope you enjoy my painting!

"Men with Flowers" detail