Sunny Days Container Garden and a Missouri Workshop by Nancy Medina

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Sunny Days was my class demonstration at my Lee's Summit, Missouri workshop yesterday morning. Connie Turner's Art Studio, our hostesses beautiful domain, had a yard filled with potted plants in full bloom, so we brought the outside IN and created our very own container garden. This was the charter class for Connie's place, and it was a honor to teach such a talented group of ladies. We painted sunflowers, hollyhocks, and red geraniums, feasted on lunch spreads and desserts (evidentiary photographic documentation provided here) and giggled and painted every day, sometimes simultaneously because we gals, we can multitask like that. This class in Lee's Summit, Missouri, filled up so quick we've created another one for next October - You can sign up and join us below. For you St. Louis ladies who were with us this weekend, I'll see you gals for another sold out workshop in two weeks to teach for the Greater St Louis Art Association! Turn the thermostat down to 68 and warm up your brushes in my home town and I'll see you under the arch!

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Happy Days Sunflowers by Texas Artist Nancy Medina

Happy Days Sunflowers

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Happy Days Sunflowers was my demonstration for the Trinity Arts Guild in North Texas yesterday evening, one of the oldest art clubs in the state. What an honor to paint for a group of master painters and teachers, and the nicest group of artists you could meet, including one of my favorite instructors and friends, Fran Chausse White! I named Happy Days tonight in honor of what I really think should be happening in terms of life today. Am I the only person who wonders about this new age which finds death and sadness and horror in movies, television, and film entertaining? There are not enough happy days in our lives, and I am determined to keep right on swimming against this awful tide. Read more...

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Spring Formal Pink and Red Poppies by Texas Flower Artist Nancy Medina

Spring Formal Pink and Red Poppy Field

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I felt the need to step out of the studio and into the fields today, and painted Spring Formal Pink and Red Poppies based on the bobbing and dipping fields of flowers in Fredericksburg, Texas. The weather was clear, cool and absolutely gorgeous in Flower Mound, Texas. Studio Director AnnieBee bossed me away from the easel on at least four occasions to throw her toy du jour. After a busy morning of packing and shipping paintings, it was nice to have a few moments in the garden to sit, breathe, relax, and share quiet time with my pugs. I wanted to share that time with you, too, with a photo of a surprise from my garden this morning. The rest of its brethren seem spent for the season, but this morning the one, glorious white lady stood tall among the red roses.

Fresh Sunflowers and a Fredericksburg Art Invitation by Texas Flower Artist Nancy Medina

Coastal Color Sunflowers

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Coastal Color Sunflowers is the newest small daily, continuing the lavishly lavender theme this week. I'll be leaving Thursday for the Hill Country and the historic German town of Fredericksburg, Texas. Dozens of art events are kicking off in Fredericksburg, which is hosting the Oil Painters of America show. I'll be the featured artist Friday evening at the Good Art Company gallery and my workshop begins Friday morning. There are still a few seats open in my 3-day workshop this weekend, so don't delay - let's share some German pastries, look out over rolling cabins and hills from the classroom windows, and make flowers bloom in brilliant colors!

You are cordially invited to join me in historic Fredericksburg, Texas, amidst rolling hills, cabins, beautiful vistas, and awesome German bakeries for a perfect workshop retreat!
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Wild Things ~ Making Flowers Bloom in the Hill Country

Baron's Creekside Resort

May 3, 4 and 5, 2013

316 Goehmann Lane

Fredericksburg, TX 78624
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SOLD ~ White Hydrangeas on Purple and a Texas Hill Country Art Show by Nancy Medina

 Deep Purple White Hydrangeas

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My St. Louis workshop filled up today, so I felt the need to celebrate my first workshop in my home town with some bold color! I've been playing with purple just about all week, after creating a new banner for my art newsletter. There is just something soothing about fuschias and lavenders, and lately it's been a lot of fun to find new colors to pair with purple. In the meantime, I've got a Big Ole (important Texas term) four foot canvas behind me I'm scrambling to finish in time for my Featured Artist night for The Good Art Company Gallery in Fredericksburg, Texas, next Friday evening. I sure hope to see you there!

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Cup of Sunshine Daisies and What Happens in a Workshop by Texas Flower Artist Nancy Medina

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Cup of Sunshine Daisies

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 It was a banner day in the workshop classroom, with paint flying hither and yon, flashbulbs popping, and lots of giggling and visiting. I always love to step back and enjoy the chatter and excitement of a room full of ladies exchanging emails, places they love to visit, pictures of their kids and furbabies, and generally having a ball. Workshops, to me, are a gift you give yourself for all that you give to others. They are a place of peace, a place of healing, a place to rejuvenate and recharge and enjoy color and flowers. 

We give so much of ourselves to our families, friends and jobs, it is good to once in a while give something back to ourselves. My workshops start each day with a large demonstration painting. In the afternoons, we work together step by step on a favorite flower of choice. My students are beginner to advanced, working in oils, water based oils and acrylics, and benefit from a technique that encourages a loose, fresh approach to making bright colors sing. Thank you to the marvelous group of talented artists who spent these past three days with me. I am so grateful to my students for all they share with me, and all they teach me. Not to mention helping me eat all those donuts!

 Cup of Sunshine Daisies with the studio models!

Yellow Glow Sunflowers and Hydrangeas by Texas Artist Nancy Medina

Yellow Glow Sunflowers

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Yellow Glow Sunflowers is a new small work on the easel in Flower Mound Studio. The boss was very demanding today, tossing her new squeaky turtle toy at my feet on at least three occasions, insisting I get some fresh air away from the studio, and play in the yard with her. It's a tough job painting full time and working from home with my helpers, but I wouldn't trade it for the world!

Two of a Kind Blue Hydrangeas by Texas Flower Artist Nancy Medina

Two of a Kind Blue Hydrangeas

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Two of a Kind Hydrangeas is the newest painting in Flower Mound Studio, and feels a bit like one of my small daily paintings after the days I've spent on a few four foot container gardens! AnnieBee and I packed up our favorite pillows and toys and headed to the farm to spend time with Mom this morning. We're looking forward to movie night and popcorn. I hope you have a nice weekend ahead with comfy spots to rest and little cuties to snuggle with!

SOLD ~ Dream Sunflowers by Texas Flower Artist Nancy Medina

 Dream a Dream Sunflowers

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I am still waking up each morning, 2 weeks after quitting my 6-figure corporate job, living a life in between. Between the time when I should have put on my office clothes, braved the Dallas traffic, and spent my day in a glass building and instead am now waking up with snoring pugs curled around me, the sunshine streaming in, and knowing that my day will be filled with art, packing and shipping paintings, ordering paints, cleaning brushes, and moving through a life filled with color. 

I'm walking into the wilds away from the corporate jungle, 

with my eyes wide open, and hoping for the best.

I remember the moment when I was a senior in high school, when my parents asked me what I really wanted to be when I grew up. I told them I wanted to be an artist. We were standing outside, in front of the house, in the driveway, and it was around 5 pm, I could tell from the light and the position of the sun. Sometimes we understand without even knowing it when a pivotal moment occurs in our lives, when some small act, or statement, has significance that will resonate years later, a memory that will survive the detritus of time. I remember that moment as if it were yesterday. And I have finally arrived at the brink of that dream. I do not know if I will survive financially. But I know that I have leaped off the treadmill and chosen a path of freedom. I'm walking into the wilds away from the corporate jungle, with my eyes wide open, and hoping for the best.

 The studio models take a bow!