Filoli Garden House Tree with Tulips

Here's a different kind of painting for me. I saw this tree in a beautiful little garden house at Filoli in Woodside, CA. It captured my imagination and I just had to paint it. In front of the other window in this house was a very large birdcage with two doves in it (a subject for a matching painting to come.) Last year I thought I'd enter them both into a juried art show at Filoli. I planned early and started it well ahead of time. However, it turned out that they changed the subject of the art show to botanical flower paintings! Mine is more fanciful and not as realistic as they may want for a botanical painting, but I may just enter it anyway. What do you think?

From A to Z: Window View of a Garden and Beyond

Here it is. My step by step project of my Aunt's painting with a window scene. I had a few steps in between like drawing more details and then tracing over the drawing with a sepia pen and ink 005 permanent pen. The actual painting itself took 12 hours. I'm happy with the way it turned out.

From A to Z: Filoli Gardens in the Springtime

Ahh, Filoli Gardens in Woodside, California. These are 16 areas of lovely formal gardens and they're not too far from my home.