Farmer's Market, Best Produce

"Best Produce"  17"x 25"  $750 Framed

I love to visit the Farmer's Market when it first opens; especially on those summer mornings when the sun is still low, but you can feel the warmth of the day coming on quickly. Everything the summer sun touches warms up instantly.

This painting was such an interesting challenge! I loved deliberately choosing the warm and cool areas of the painting. It was also such an interesting puzzle to simplify this complicated scene into tonal areas of similar values.

My favorite part of this composition is the triangles. It's so fun how the triangles of the paper around the flowers are similar to the tops of the canopies.

I hope you enjoy the painting!

Prints Available!

Thank you to everyone who purchased raffle tickets at Saturday's Redmond Garden Club Plant Sale! Congratulations to Marilyn P. for winning my peony painting!

For anyone who is sad that they didn't win, don't despair! You can order prints of this painting and others directly from my website! Just click here for the link to my prints! You can order prints in a number of different sizes and even have the print matted and framed if you like! Please check it out!

Win an Original Framed Watercolor Painting for $2!

This Saturday, May 11 is the annual Redmond Garden Club Plant Sale! 

I've been a member of the Redmond Garden Club for nearly 10 years. This sale is GREAT! Several thousand beautiful quality plants are available at garage sale prices. They are mostly perennials and shrubs - better value for money than annuals as they give you years and years of enjoyment in your garden. These plants are provided by 50 different obsessive gardeners, so there are always new and unusual plants included. The sale is from 8:00am-3:00pm on Saturday, but you want to be there EARLY as the good stuff goes FAST! The plant sale is in the English Hill neighborhood of Redmond.
The address is: 17817 NE 131st Street, Redmond, WA  98052

The MOST exciting bit is that they will be raffling off an original painting of mine at Saturday's sale! This painting, "Portrait of a Peony" is an 18" x 24" beautifully framed original watercolor! The painting has a retail value of $650, but raffle tickets are only $2 each (or 3 for $5)! The winner will be drawn at 3:00, but you don't have to be present to win the painting.

"Portrait of a Peony"  18"x 24"   Framed   Value: $650

If, by some sad twist of fate you are not the one who wins the painting on Saturday, prints of this painting are available on my website. Just click here for more information about the prints.

You can find more information about the Redmond Garden Club sale at http://www.redmondgardenclub.com/
If you are a bit of an obsessive gardener (like me) and would like to see the list of plants available at the sale just click here.

Please forward this information to anyone you think might be interested. Hope to see you there!