Well, I think I am back from my “blog break” now. I even took a brief painting break as well to get some much needed rest and physical therapy for my neck/shoulder/arm troubles. But since I’m, also feeling the need to excercise my “plein air painting muscles” for the upcoming Paint Annapolis event, I’m trying to ease back into outdoor painting again.  Here’s a happy little vignette I did this week at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden:
“Garden Companions”
Oil on board, 12×8″
The botanical garden is really gorgeous right now and full of summer blooms. Even so, I had to forgo a lot of really good potential painting opportunities in order to find a spot of shade. The August sun and my fair complexion do not get along for any length of time, so shade is a real must. My painting umbrella does little more than shade my canvas and easel, leaving the rest of me high and dry (or hot and bothered, or whatever!)
I finally managed to tuck myself into a little corner to paint this potted urn surrounded by purple cone-flower, perennial grasses and towering hibiscus. Is it a landscape or a still life? Your call. Any way, it’s rather wild and impressionistic. Guess I was happy to be painting again. 
 I’ll upload it to the website this weekend, but meanwhile contact me for purchasing inquiries. (Note: It is done. See the link above!)
Jennifer
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How very lovely! I See your signature blue shadows and your luscious brushwork that are always so appealing. One really gets the feeling of the bright hot summer sun in this one. I have called such garden paintings of mine “intimate landscapes”.
Thanks so much Marilyn. Intimate landscapes–I like it! Good call. You know, the hotter and brighter the sun, the cooler the shadows, or so they seem to me. Especially in plein air painting. I know there is local color there too but I just can’t seem to help myself sometimes
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