45 Days Till Spring

When I see the flower pix I have taken in the past I think how great spring renewal will be. The freshness of mother earth, ( with out art earth is eh) birds, and grasses and more new things to paint.

These flowers even in there imperfection are perfect. I like to see the old master paintings with bugs and water droplets and a brown leaf here and there. Sometimes when we paint we want perfection in our painting and yet nature is not that way.

As artist we need to study nature, and translate it on the canvas. To be faithful to what we see, not what we think we see.

Cezanne said of Monet, " He is all eye, but what an eye!"

Oh for to be that kind of eye, and to do so one must paint everyday and all day. Monet always had two or more paintings going at once.  Different times of day and different kinds of light, and weather, and atmosphere.

Come Spring, Lets go get these brushes wet and keep them in the paint!!!!