Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Orquid Show



Wow, I got to finish my painting for the World Orchid Conference currently in Miami until the 28th of January. It is a great show to attend if you love orchids and you are in Miami. It is at the Merchandise Mart Sheraton Hotel. A couple of months ago I purchased an orchid and I thought it was going to be hard to take care of it but the blooms lasted from August to just today the last flower fell off.I also got another orchid for Xmas as a present to a friend I had to keep it in the bathroom because my cat LOVES to chew leaves (learned that the hard way with the one that I purchased, he left me only one leaf intact, the rest are chewed up) (Got to keep the door of my bathroom closed so he doesn't get it) Now the orchid I got for my friend is the one I used for the painting, it was not only spectacular in color and shape but it left the bathroom smelling great.I just started with one orchid and now after researching and seeing the flowers in this show I know I can honestly say I will be collecting orquids they are fabulous to have and a lot of fun to paint. I am slowly building a garden in the back of my house and I will be sharing the paintings I am going to be making using my plants as models. I was in such a hurry to turn in this painting that I forgot to take a picture, I will be going to the show tomorrow and post a better picture.Oops

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Happy New Year Everyone

Hi, hope you had a great New Year celebration. As always a new year brings new resolutions. I did pretty good with last year's and this year I will definitely work on: More paintings, a florida turnpike plein air painting series, join a couple of more artist's groups, design a full fledge website with all my art and crafts and what I am most excited about a plein air trip to Europe this year. Email me so you can keep up with my painting adventures. I will be posting paintings in the next 2 weeks and even a photo of my studio.You will be looking over my shoulder as I paint.Until then, I will keep painting and hope that you are having as much fun too.