Palette Knife Painters, International

I love walking into Flower Mound Studio a day after a workshop ends, the house is filled with the smell of fresh flowers! This past weekend, gals from Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma converged to create brightly color florals, taking home two or three new paintings each. I painted a large demonstration each morning, and in the afternoons, we completed step by step paint-along flowers together.

I'm absolutely delighted to announce a new 2-day workshop with the Trinity Arts Guild in Bedford, Texas, coming up in June - open to TAG members and non-members alike! What a perfect time of year to make flowers bloom in brilliant colors. Put a little joy in your brush and join me June 8-9 from 9 am to 4 pm. Open to beginners to advanced students, as well as those who work in water based oils and acrylics, I'll share all my favorite tips for painting in a loose, fresh style, making simple strokes of color on a transparent underpainting.

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Painting Brilliant Florals in Oils

Trinity Arts Guild

Two-Day Workshop

$175 for Two Days

June 8-9, 2013

9 am to 4 pm Daily

Flower Mound Studio smelling like roses today!

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Summer Season Sunflowers by Texas Flower Artist Nancy Medina

Summer Season Sunflowers

by Nancy Medina

Class Demonstration

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Oil on Archival Panel

Summer Season Sunflowers and Day Lilies was the morning class demo today for my workshop in Fredericksburg, Texas, in the heart of the Texas Hill Country. We woke up this morning to sunshine and country breezes, a perfect day to spend with friends painting, a perfect day to enjoy fresh German pastries, and a fabulous day to go out for dinner after class for excellent and seafood and chocolate torte desserts all around (yes, I noticed there were two references to desserts, and one reference to painting....) !

I get such joy from seeing my students excited about their paintings. These ladies converged from all over the country to gather for some loose, bright application of color emphasizing an energetic, free approach to making brilliant flowers bloom in oils. What an amazing life it is, to wake up each morning now knowing I am now officially doing the thing I love most of all - teaching art. I sincerely hope each of you has found a way to follow your bliss. I'm so glad you are here with me, on this journey. Have another cheese kolache and let's get to painting!

The classroom models take a bow and a dip!

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Spring Training White Roses and a Hill Country Workshop by Texas Flower Artist Nancy Medina

Spring Training White Roses

by Nancy Medina

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Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

Spring Training White Roses is the newest daily on the easel in Flower Mound Studio, which is bereft of many accoutrements as we have loaded up the truck in preparation for a trip to the Hill Country tomorrow. I sure hope ya'll will come on out and say howdy if you're there! I'll be teaching a 3-day workshop, and have a featured art night at The Good Art Company Gallery, just up the street from the kolache bakery. I love going to Fredericksburg, Texas, to teach and to visit. This historic town is so unspoiled, and there is so much to see there. I even have my new mobile phone app, Night Sky, to try out so think positive thoughts for clear night skies for me, I want to see some constellations in an area far from large city lights! It's not too late, there are still a few seats left in my workshop. I've had a few gals with very well trained hubbies register this week as their Mom's day presents.

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!

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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Monday, April 15, 2013

Balboa California Flower Market by Texas Artist Nancy Medina

Balboa Flower Market

by Nancy Medina

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Oil on Archival Panel

Balboa Flower Market is a new small daily painting in response to the DPW challenge and my upcoming trip to San Diego, California. One of the things I miss most about living in Southern California is having bougainvillea everywhere, most especially the peach colored blossoms, and the farmers markets in almost every town. Bags of fresh Fuji apples, and armloads of flowers were always the pick of the day for me, and for my little souldog, Buddy, who went everywhere I went when I lived there.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Color Burst Hydrangeas and a St. Louis Workshop by Flower Artist Nancy Medina

Color Burst Blue and White Hydrangeas

by Nancy Medina

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Oil on Archival Panel