Sunday, May 26, 2013

Clara's Lilacs

Last fall I sold several paintings depicting local scenes of Rochester to a lovely lady I have never had the opport-unity to meet.  She is not from Rochester, but her husband is.  She buys the paintings as gifts for him so that he can have a little bit of Rochester with him, even though he doesn't live here anymore.

She asked me if I have ever painted the lilacs.  Rochester is well know for it's lilacs, but I never had.  Well, this year is different.  The lilacs this year were spectacular!  I HAD to paint them.  So, I picked a big bouquet of them and went to town.  It was wonderful fun and here's the painting.