Yellow Lady Slipper Orchid

 

10 x 8 inches - oil on hardboard - These are hardy and flower in our garden every year. I wish I could convince them to face the front of the garden instead of following the sun.

Peony - Golden Wheel

6 x 6 inches - oil on gessoboard - Yellow peonies are special and still not very common.

Yellow House

8 x 6 inches - oil on gessoboard - In this spring scene, yellow is the focus. It's always hard to decide what details to leave out and what to add.

Pear and Apples

6 x 8 inches - oil on gessoboard - green and yellow

8 x 8 inches - oil on linen board - Most people think of coneflowers as purple or perhaps white but that is not true any more.

Yellow Iris

6 x 6 inches - oil on gessoboard - I have been painting a number of flower portraits lately. This is from a photo that I took of one of the irises in our garden.

Key Lime Pie Factory

6 x 6 inches - oil on gessoboard - Key lime pie is The delicious desert of the Keys. I guess they need a factory to keep up with the demand.

Ladyslipper Orchid

8 x 10 inches, oil on canvas board - These orchids grow in our garden and flower briefly but when they do they put on quite a show.  The only problem is that the flowers like to face the sun and we planted them on the wrong side of the bed.

Yellow Tulips

6 x 8 inches, oil on hardboard - Tulips are nearly done in our garden now but there are still a few blooming.

Old Spanish House

6 x 6 inches, oil on gessoboard - It is sometimes fun to troll the internet using Google Earth for images to paint. I found this building in a small place in Spain. I think it was called Segovia. I added the bike.

Mothers Day Flowers

6 x 8 inches, oil on hardboard - I took advantage of some flowers my wife got for Mothers Day and painted them.

Yellow Daylilies

8 x 10 inches, oil on canvas board - Just about the easiest plant in the garden to look after are the daylilies, and I am particularly fond of yellow ones. We like to use them in a little bit of shade as well as in the sun. Although they do not flower as much, the foliage looks like grass and it is hard to find grasses that work well in the shade.

Daffodil in Green Vase

7 x 5 inches, oil on gessoboard - I did not want to let spring pass without painting a daffodil.

Yellow Orchid

6 x 6 inches, oil on gessoboard - I did this from a photo that I took of an arrangement at the orchid show in Toronto last year. They let the photographers in an hour early and then kick them out so that the orchid enthusiasts can see the display. That hour was bedlam. I got whacked by camera bags a couple of times and caught a serious case of camera envy.

Yellow Daylilies

8 x 10 inches, oil on canvas board - I am particularly fond of yellow daylilies and they come in a great variety of shapes and sizes. The leaves are just starting to show now so summer is on its way I hope.

Garden Show Arrangement

6 x 6 inches, oil on hardboard - We are recuperating for the last couple of days from the garden show on the weekend. It is a lot of work to put the show together and planning for next year starts right away. It is a real challenge to turn two hockey arenas into something suitable for a garden show.  A friend of ours put together many of the flower arrangements used in decorating the venue. I was talking to her about the show and as we talked she put this arrangement together, hardly ever even looking at what she was doing. It is a real skill that takes many years of practice.

Snow today! I am going to my room.

Lemon Grapes and Spoon

6 x 6 inches, Oil on Gessoboard - This is the weekend of the Peterborough Garden Show and we are up to our earlobes in it. The show is the largest of its kind in Ontario and people come from all over to visit. So I am distracted from painting but luckily I painted this a while ago.