We just got back from a lovely day in Manning Park and I painted many lovely expressionistic oils of a meadow with thousands of buttercups in full bloom. There was lots of wildflowers in the other meadows and along the hillside but we just had a lunch at the picnic tables nearer to this particular meadow. I'm happy how these paintings looked and so spontaneous and I just squeezed the yellow tube of oil paint directly onto the canvas paper. It's so easy and convenient for quick compositions, rather then having to set up an easel and then anchor the stretch canvas with the wooden dowels. I've naturally enjoyed all the postings on my blog with those very detailed paintings done nearly thirty years ago. I still have dozens and dozens more of them, in that art style I did in those days. They'll all be published eventually and I located another folder of poems and prose I wrote years ago too.I'm still looking at the other wet buttercup paintings which are still drying. One of them especially looks like many miniature suns and that we haven't seen much of on the West Coast lately. It's rained and was so cold and our garden is very green but no flowers yet. The bumblebees along the Southerly part of our property are feeding on and collecting the pollen from the dandelions today. And the sun has actually made an appearance today but more rain is forecast for this coming week.
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