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Summer Rain Red Geraniums by Nancy Medina 16X12 Oil on Archival Panel Purchase Information Flower Painting Workshops Nancy Medina Web Site Follow Me on Facebook Sign Up for My Art Newsletter! Summer Rain Red Geraniums was one of my class demonstrations in Lees Summit, Missouri last month, from our step by step afternoon paint-along sessions. These flowers were based on Connie Turner's glorious garden, the one you may recall we moved indoors, right into the classroom, one giant pot at a time. I decided I wanted to paint in oils years ago, for the first, time, after seeing a red geranium painting that made me want to cry. It was so beautiful, and the color so rich. If I could paint a geranium like that someday, I knew I would find perfect happiness. Little did I know, the art journey itself has given me just as much joy. For those who have walked this path with me over the years, I will have some exciting news coming up in the next few weeks, so stay tu...

Garden Glow Geranium by Nancy Medina 16X12 Oil on Archival Panel Purchase Information Flower Painting Workshops Nancy Medina Web Site Follow Me on Facebook Sign Up for My Art Newsletter! Garden Glow Geraniums was one of my seven class demonstrations in St. Louis last week. I had the great good fortune to be the guest of an accomplished portrait artist, Sharon, in her amazing home built by a steamboat captain in the 1830s. This wonderful home with its hardwood floors, old brick walls and archways, and fireplaces was filled with antiques and artwork, the kind of place you could easily picture in a great mystery novel. Windswept is the name of this home, Sharon told me, after filling me in on the activities of the resident ghost, who makes her presence known "only every three or four months". Read more...

June Bloom Geranium by Nancy Medina 8X10 Oil on Archival Panel Purchase Information Flower Painting Workshops Nancy Medina Web Site Follow Me on Facebook June Bloom Geranium is the newest daily painting in Flower Mound Studio, and it's been a busy weekend. I'm not quite sure why I'm just a bit sad tomorrow is Monday. I don't have to go into an office anymore. Now I work right here in my studio when I'm not traveling to teach, with my puggies nearby. I do think the helpers are happier now, they're enjoying having me to boss almost 24 hours a day. Three meals a day, with multiple snacks in between to keep their strength up, visits to the yard to play and chase bugs across the yard with ferocious pug noises, and mid-day nap time to refuel and prepare for dinner, barking at the TV, and swapping pillows in the studio while I gingerly step amongst them while trying to reach the easel. One thing is certain, never a day passes that these little fu...

Summer Dance Red Geraniums by Nancy Medina 16X12 Oil on Archival Panel Purchase Information Flower Painting Workshops Nancy Medina Web Site Follow Me on Facebook After carefully checking for wayward tree lizards, I brought a pot of these red blossoms in from my garden to paint tonight. The last time I brought a batch of geraniums in to paint, I carried a large pot of them to the Dutch Art Gallery in Dallas for a workshop there, only to discover a teeny baby lizard had hitched a ride. The entire class screeched to a halt as we built the little guy a mobile terrarium, and the hubby drove him back to our garden and placed him beneath our pear tree in the back yard. None of us could really focus on painting until we received a call letting us know baby lizard was safe and sound. I do think he lived on to proliferate, judging from the dozen lizards who now live on our deck puffing out their chins at one another, competing with one another for the spot on the fence th...

Island Geraniums by Nancy Medina SOLD 12X12 Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Purchase Information Flower Painting Workshops Nancy Medina Web Site Follow Me on Facebook Island Geraniums is another Coronado-inspired floral painting, as I sift through my library of over 500 new photos from my trip there last weekend. These images will fuel the muses for some time to come; there is just something about the light on Coronado Island that seems to give the flowers there such a color boost! Like Miracle Grow in the sunshine or something.... I've become infatuated with purple backgrounds recently, and thought a purple background on this painting would be an interesting experiment. What do you think?

 Warm Thoughts Red Geraniums by Nancy Medina SOLD 16X12 Oil on Archival Panel Flower Painting Workshops Nancy Medina Web Site Follow Me on Facebook Warm Thoughts Red Geraniums is the newest small work on the easel in Flower Mound Studio, a break (or procrastination tool) from the 60 inch canvas filling up half my studio space today! I had a bit of a dilemma this afternoon, when I noticed the boss had fallen asleep right in the middle of my easel. See actual photo evidence of the above infraction on my art blog today. Tomorrow I go on a shopping spree for fresh flowers for my 3 day workshop in North Texas this weekend. I have only one seat left, so don't delay - you can read how to register and more here! Warm Thoughts on the easel!

  Rendezvous Red Geraniums and Sunflowers by Nancy Medina Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Purchase Information Flower Painting Workshops Nancy Medina Web Site Rendezvous Red Geraniums is the newest painting drying on the easel in Flower Mound Studio, as we wind down a busy few weeks and look forward to a beautiful weekend. My geraniums are blooming, new irises are about to open, all is right with the world in my back yard garden. I've been filling up my inventory of small daily paintings, but tonight just felt the need to paint bigger and bolder, using my 3/4 inch flat brush for the entire painting, from start to finish. The studio models take a bow!

Pieces of Red Geraniums by Nancy Medina 12X12 Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Purchase Information Nancy Medina Web Site Pieces of Red Geraniums is a continuation of the geranium theme in the studio this week. This painting was actually finished yesterday, and today I painted a larger 16X20 version I'll share with you tomorrow, at the risk of deluging you with too many geraniums! I was delighted to wake up this morning to find that two of my hydrangea paintings were purchased by a collector in Australia, in The Northern Territory. One of the first landscape palette knife paintings I ever completed was of the Kata Tjuta mountain range from that region . And when I say region, it is so vast it is continent sized all on its own! This was about six years ago, and I would never have dreamed at that time that I would someday be sending paintings there. I've shared a picture of that palette knife painting on my art blog today . Quite a change in my style over the years!