White Lily Acrylic Painting Finished

24" x 18 1/4", acrylic on Masonite panel unframed. I'd like to create this painting once again on a much larger stretched canvas, even gallery stretched and paint the sides, say around 60" x 36".

White Lily Painting on Masonite Panel

Work in progress...

Lily Abstract - Acrylic Painting on Masonite Panel

24" x 18", primed gesso panel, sketch in 9b graphite and acrylic red. A start.I see already the shape needs much modification.

Charcoal Lily Drawing for Painting

5" x 8", charcoal on paper.

Mom's Peony - Painting in Acrylics on Masonite Panel

26 1/2" x 10 1/2" x 1", framed in a thick antique pine wood frame, painted with a soft white wash. Finished.

Mom's Peony I Stole - Painting in Acrylic on Masonite Panel

23 1/2" x 7", acrylic on Masonite panel { unframed dimensions } First session after I applied gesso and then a wash of red acrylic paint over entire surface.

Mom's Peony - Sketch in Charcoal

23 1/2" x 7", charcoal sketch on primed Masonite panel for a painting I'm working on tomorrow using acrylics.

I dropped by my Mom's house today but, she was not home, she's away with my Father and I thought it was a good place to sit and think amongst the gardens and trees, taking in the fresh warm air and Summer time smells everywhere. A Robin was there along with me, carrying food in his mouth for his babies. Before I left, I broke off one of Mom's huge, deep pink, Peony Blooms to take home with me, as I knew that it would be dead anyway by the time she returned home from her trip.

This sketch is taken from a digital photo I took of the enormous flower, after I placed it inside a glass vase. I'll be working using this image to create the painting.

Garden and My Grandmother

A link to my Biological Grandmother's Picture's Self Photography by Canadian Artist Sheri Burhoe