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Surrounded by Love, White Lilies and Hydrangeas, is the newest daily painting on the easel in Flower Mound Studio. I was delighted to get a big response to my post yesterday, providing tips on how to paint red poppies. Over 200 folks tuned in! I will provide more tips for you in the future, and eventually put these into a collection.

If you've been following my art blog for a while, you may already be familiar with my step by step paintings, where I provide each step of a painting for you in images. I start with a completely transparent underpainting, then move into opaque colors as a last step, a final reward for all the hard work of building a foundation of color that will play well with the final values. Put a little joy in your brush and join me for a flower painting workshop! I'll be teaching in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, next spring. What say let's put on our vacation hats and make some flowers bloom on the beach!

Fort Lauderdale, Florida workshop next spring!

Detail from Surrounded by Love, one little lily

Friday, May 10, 2013

Early to Rise Pink and Red Poppies of the Texas Hill Country by Nancy Medina

Early to Rise Pink and Red Poppies

by Nancy Medina

11X14

Oil on Museum Quality Linen Panel

Early to Rise Pink and Red Poppies is the newest daily painting in Flower Mound Studio, as I begin work on a large Texas landscape for a beautiful Flower Mound home. These poppies are based on the field of tossing and turning blossoms at Wildseed Farms in Fredericksburg, Texas last week. The wind never rested while I snapped photos as quickly as I could - one must tread carefully when photographing outdoor flowers in Texas, watching especially for fire ants! Happily, I was not attacked by the awful little beasties during this photoshoot. Like a big flower game hunter, I carried home hundreds of new flower photos, much preferred over hundreds of new ant bites...

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Life Anew Pink and Red Poppies by Texas Flower Artist Nancy Medina

Life anew Pink and Red Poppies

by Nancy Medina

11X14

Oil on Museum Quality Linen

Life Anew Pink and Red Poppies are based on the poppies of Wildseed Farms in Fredericksburg Texas, where my art class concluded on Sunday. When my students suggested a quick trip at lunchtime Saturday to the farms, I immediately counted myself in. I had, after all, spotted this giant field of pink and red poppies just as I entered Fredericksburg, and the poppy sirens had been sweetly singing in my ear ever since. Who could resist this combination of cool pinks and warm red poppies?

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Sweet Dreams Red Poppies and a Hill Country Art Show by Texas Flower Artist Nancy Medina

Sweet Dreams Poppies

by Nancy Medina

14X14

Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

Sometimes I feel the need to express color brightly, boldly, and so thick you would need a knife and a fork to cut into it! I've been working until midnight every night for weeks preparing for upcoming workshops, my show in Fredericksburg this weekend at The Good Art Company Gallery, and all of the exciting new challenges of my full time job as an artist. How thankful I am to be able to follow my dream. I am in a state of absolute euphoric exhaustion. This is how I want to live my life, and spend my days, rushing headlong toward a dream and a life filled with color. Thank you to everyone who has joined me for the journey. Tomorrow morning, I think we all deserve donuts, what do you think?

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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Click Here to Register

Thursday, April 25, 2013

SOLD ~ Island Geraniums and Violet Infatuations by Flower Artist Nancy Medina

Island Geraniums by Nancy Medina

SOLD

12X12

Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

Island Geraniums is another Coronado-inspired floral painting, as I sift through my library of over 500 new photos from my trip there last weekend. These images will fuel the muses for some time to come; there is just something about the light on Coronado Island that seems to give the flowers there such a color boost! Like Miracle Grow in the sunshine or something.... I've become infatuated with purple backgrounds recently, and thought a purple background on this painting would be an interesting experiment. What do you think?

Sunday, April 14, 2013

SOLD ~ Stargazing With Stargazers in Flower Mound Studio by Texas Artist Nancy Medina

Stargazers and Pear

by Nancy Medina

SOLD

16X12

Oil on Archival Panel

Stargazers were on sale at the grocery store flower market day before yesterday for $2 a bunch. Each bunch had three bundles of stems, and each stem had half a dozen flowers. I'll let you imagine what my house smells like right now! Then I found this very good looking pear. I'm sure the checker at the counter added one more little token to the pile of crazy chips she automatically thinks of when she sees me trundling up her line with flowers instead of groceries. Here I was with flowers, chocolate, and one fat pear. A pear that is looking extremely yummy to me right now, so I had better wash up and leave the studio before the pear faces a sad demise...

The studio model pear rolls over!

Friday, April 12, 2013

Celestial Garden Hydrangea and Rose Container Garden by Texas Flower Artist Nancy Medina

Celestial Garden Hydrangeas and Rose

Container Garden by Nancy Medina

24X30

Textured Palette Knife/Oil

Gallery Wrap Canvas

Celestial Garden Blue Hydrangeas and Roses is the newest work on the easel in Flower Mound Studio, a tribute to a table full of brightly colored fresh flowers on my handy dandy Rubbermaid roller-cart. Almost everything in my studio is on wheels, so I can move things around and fit the large canvases into small space more easily. I say more easily, because there are still times when I feel I am bumping up against every wall and every piece of furniture, in an attempt to get at a corner of a canvas or get a photo from a little distance away. It's also important and a key to a successful day in the studio to ensure there are at least three large comfy beds nearby upon which the assistant may lounge. They prefer to have variety and many choices, I've noticed, one day wanting the cool hardwood floor on the belly, another wanting to be tucked up under a fuzzy blankey on the bed under the desk. Can you tell this working from home is honing my skills of observation?

Celestial Garden models take a bow!

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Blossom Rain Pink Roses by Texas Flower Artist Nancy Medina

Blossom Rain Pink Roses

by Nancy Medina

SOLD

16X12

Oil on Archival Panel