Lake Wynonah acrylic

I don't do many paintings.  Truth told, I find them boring.  If you don't get it right the first time, you just keep at it until you do.  So it becomes repetitive. 

But, my brother Ken asked for a painting of the view from his lake house at sunset, so I thought I would give it a shot.   This is the inspirational photo taken by my niece Jessica, that they selected for the piece.

My brother asked me to cheat it a bit so that he could see the houses across the lake.  No problem.  That's the good thing about painting - artistic license. 

And here was the final result. 

I'm pleased with it.  But I still don't like painting.  Next time I'll have to talk him into an embroidery.

Cheers!

PJ

(c) 2016 PJ Lehrer

 

Pink Lilies

I've been a fan of lilies ever since I got married.  

That was when Edward explained to me that if you buy cut lilies with buds

 they will continue to bloom. 

I love that. 

Usually I'm not that keen on cut flowers precisely because you watch them die. 

So it was nice to find something that I could enjoy even in a vase.

The other great things about lilies

are that there are so many different kinds of them

and they have such interesting shapes. 

I look forward to their arrival next summer!

Here's a previous blog with lilies...

http://pj-studio.blogspot.com/2012/07/lilies.html

One with water lilies...

http://pj-studio.blogspot.com/2012/11/water-lilies-lotus-flowers.html

One with canna lilies...

http://pj-studio.blogspot.com/2014/10/canna-lilies.html

And one with calla lilies...

http://pj-studio.blogspot.com/2015/09/calla-lilies.html

I said there were lots of different kinds, didn't I?

Enjoy!

PJ

(c) 2016 PJ Lehrer