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Paper Doll Poppies by Nancy Medina 14X11 Oil on Arches Oil Paper Flower Painting Workshops My Web Site Follow Me on Facebook Sign Up for My Art Newsletter! If you've ordered anything from Dick Blick lately, you've probably received a pad of their free Arches cold pressed oil paper. I decided to give the surface a try the other night, and was pleasantly surprised! The paper reacted well to the flow of my oils without a feeling of the brush tips dragging on a rough surface. I didn't have to prime or prepare the paper in any way. It's been about four days since I painted Paper Doll Poppies, and the color has not faded or been absorbed by the paper. Now I just have to figure out what to do with it next! Glue it to something? Hmmmm...

 Gone Flying, Back Soon Poppies by Nancy Medina 16X12 Oil on Archival Panel Purchase Information Flower Painting Workshops My Web Site Follow Me on Facebook Sign Up for My Art Newsletter! You know you're an artist when....you have a TON of things to do and you stop everything to paint because the light catches your eye on some colorful object...in the dining room you recently converted into Studio Number Two....after getting rid of your perfectly good dining room table. Anyone else ever had this problem? Hmmm?  Poppies perched on the easel Distracted by the siren song of a pretty flower, yet again....

Spotlight Poppies by Nancy Medina 16X12 Oil on Archival Panel Purchase Information Flower Painting Workshops Nancy Medina Web Site Poppies are blooming throughout Flower Mound Studio tonight, as I work on a new commission and move orange, pink, blue and green around on a canvas in an effort to appeal to the muses. They're demanding bright, loose, cheerful color today, to combat a plethora of stress! Relax, loosen the shoulders, and just breathe - let the color flow - I tell my art students this is the gift they've given themselves when they come to workshops. This is their chance to let a beautiful part of themselves shine!  I'm delighted and absolutely thrilled my first Kansas City area workshop is almost full months in advance of the date, but I do hope that won't leave you out if you were planning to join me there in June. There are two seats open so don't delay - I can't wait to make bright flowers bloom with you in my home state of...

Pink Pilate Poppies by Nancy Medina 11X14 Oil on Museum Quality Linen Panel Purchase Information Flower Painting Workshops Nancy Medina Web Site Pink Pilate Poppies is the newest work in Flower Mound Studio, as Hannah and AnnieBee snore contentedly on their pillows by my feet. They like to stay up late with me every evening when I paint, because one never knows when some exciting food related activity will occur in Flower Mound Studio! Pink Pilates is based on my library of photographs from a visit to Salt Lake City Utah a few yeas ago, when the poppies in the mountains were in full bloom. As the poppies faded and finished their bloom, they turned a crimson tinged pink with Indian red edges. The wrinkled, faded poppies had such unusual colors I wanted to try to capture just a little of that in these blossoms today.