Caboose Explosions Dahlia

Caboose Explosion Dahlia
Oil on Canvas
18" x 24"
2000



This was one of my husband's favorite Dahlias. We grew it for a couple of years but it just wasn't hardy enough to withstand my gardening technique, the soggy Northwest weather, and the cold, even digging it up each winter and transplanting it in the spring. The petals felt like velvet and the center felt like wax.

I've kept it hanging in my studio off and on over the years for when I needed a shot of color in my life.

Yellow New Zealand Poppie

New Zealand Poppie
Oil on Canvas
11" X 14"
2006





I purchased this plant at a local store here in Scappoose, Oregon, not New Zealand. I couldn't resist the way the light and shadows played on the petals. The bee was also intrigued by it I guess. He got in to several of the photos I took that day. I planted it in my flowerbed and it had many blooms through out the summer but alas it did not come back the next year.

Pink Tulips

Pink Tulips
Oil on canvas
4" x 18"
2002




I painted these pink tulips from a trip my husband and I took to The Buchart Garden's in British Columbia.