Saturday, January 28, 2012

"Wildflower Garden in Denmark"-12x16, oil on linen

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"Wildflower Garden in Denmark"-12x16, oil on linen

I just returned from a wonderful workshop with fellow daily painter and Artist Extraordinaire Dreama Tolle Perry. The workshop was a blast and it was great to get home from the trip and find a check in the mail for the sale of my painting, "Wildflower Garden in Denmark." Thank-you to Gallerie Unique in Fort Myers Florida for the sale, and hugs to Dreama for an excellent workshop! If you would like to know more about the painting above, below is an excerpt from the original blog post and be sure to visit Dreama's blog to see all the lovely paintings we did in class last week!

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A few years back, my husband and I took a trip to Denmark to visit my husband's relatives and celebrate the birthday of a cousin. We had a wonderful time and were able to go back in time and trace my husband's history, which included a dad who was a stowaway on a boat out of Copenhagen headed for America many, many years ago. The stowaway dad was discovered at Ellis Island, became a merchant marine, and the rest is history for our family!

The site of this painting was somewhere around the grounds of the beautiful Begentved Manor, or Castle, as some call it. We had just walked over a bridge and were on a winding road with red houses with thatched roofs:

At the foot of that bridge was this incredible wildflower garden, and although I was not a painter at the time, I knew I had to try to capture the beauty of that garden with my camera! Anyway, the trip was wonderful, and I am glad that although I was using a pretty lousy camera at the time, I was able to translate my memories of the moment into a painting!




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