What Catches My Eye..

                                       "Going Wild", 10x12" oil Available through Studio Gallery

I ventured out to paint with a friend a couple of weeks ago. We decided to return to a gem of a park in Breckenridge, full of subject matter. We had painted there before and returned to paint some of the historic homes there. 

The proliferation of the flowers in the garden there caught my eye and all plans of painting architecture were forgotten. The light hitting the stones and lighting up the flowers all begged me to paint them. Above is the result. 

I was amazed at the resilience these plants showed on a sunny morning, enduring the very dry weather mixed with high winds and smoke from the fires in our state. Nature will survive and adapt. I saw that as a lesson these gardens were sharing with me. 

This painting will always remind me of that beautiful morning in the midst of everything swirling around us. It was an oasis of beauty. Nature gives us these lessons...we just need to stop and look for them.