May Morning

May Morning  -  pastel,  16"x 12"

I actually did this painting a couple of years ago, but never finished it.  Some-times I get bored, sometimes a painting doesn't come together the way I envisioned.  Often, I will set something like this aside for awhile and see if I can improve and finish it later.  Well, this one took quite a bit of time to come back to. While started on location, this would not be considered to be plein air.  Too much work done in the studio.

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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.