Pink–my favorite color! I love it combined with all shades of gray, brown, green, orange … well, almost any other color, really. So pink dogwood blossoms against a background of neutral-ish browns really speaks to me. Which is my way of saying that I totally love this artwork. The background is kind of stripey. I [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2010’
Pink Dogwood on a Gray Day
The dogwoods are starting to bloom, and you can often catch them on an overcast day, as in this work. I actually captured this shot a couple of Aprils ago. I’m still having fun reorganizing and re-editing my old photos. The gray background in this artwork is close to the sky color in the original [...]
Cherry Tree Lane
This little farm is just a couple of miles from my house. (How lucky am I?) A grassy lane lined with ornamental cherry trees leads from the road into the farm. They even arranged for it to curve gently to the right, bless their hearts. Were they thinking how photogenic it would look? It’s gorgeous [...]
Oregon-Grape Blossoms
Oregon’s state flower is the Oregon-grape, hyphenated because it’s not really a grape. It produces vivid yellow flowers in the spring and small blue berries in the fall. Oregon-grape grows naturally here but can be an invasive nuisance in other parts of the country. I captured this image in the local high school parking lot. [...]
Blue Houseboat
I’ll let you in on a secret longing: I’ve always wanted to live on a houseboat. There’s something intensely romantic about them in my imagination. Not romantic in the “boy-girl, flowers and candy and kisses” way, but in the “exotic places that I’ll probably never see” way. Like Kathmandu. Romantic in the sense that they’re [...]
Water Lily
Here’s another artwork from our San Francisco trip. The Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park has a beautiful little lily pond, and I spent a happy ten minutes or so shooting the blossoms. This was my favorite of the photos … edited in Photoshop with the Topaz filters, of course, to give it that [...]
Isolated Purple Bearded Iris
Bearded irises are everywhere here in the Portland area. They grow to enormous size compared to the irises I grew up with. If I had to name a favorite flower, it would be the iris, although I actually prefer the smaller ones, especially the wild ones that grow around here. They’re hard to spot, but [...]
Goodbye PaintShop Pro, Hello Photoshop
I’ve been a PaintShop Pro user for almost 15 years, since it was a simple graphics editor from a little company called JASC. I’ve updated to every new release and always defended it to my Photoshopping friends as the “poor gal’s Photoshop” and my editor of choice. I even devoted a section of one of [...]
Fine Art America
My daughter sent me a link this morning to another online art site, Fine Art America. I like it! I like the services they offer to artists, galleries, and art collectors. I’m especially impressed with the options they offer when you’re ordering a print. As an example, you can examine any portion of an image [...]
Cherry Doors
Spring arrived very early in the Pacific Northwest this year (2010). Cherry blossom not due until the first week in April bloomed in late February. But that didn’t make them any less beautiful! I love the symmetry of this tree right in front of the two condos and the contrast of colors between the deep [...]
