We recently celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary which was an interesting celebration in the time of COVID confinement, but still a great milestone to celebrate with our daughters.  I painted this bouquet freehand, without penciling first.  It was quite fun to do and I think turned out pretty well. 

It's available for you to mat and frame as you'd like, for $75, or I can mount it onto a deep cradled wood panel for a modern look with an extra charge.  Both can be safely mailed.  

Hi folks, while I'm still continuing to paint my loose realistic watercolors I'm being drawn to abstract expression to play with the medium and still focus on composition/value/contrast and all that other good art stuff that helps make paintings sing! 

I've been taking small video art classes from mixed media artists on abstract art and playing with friends online and just having tons of fun during the lockdown.  Here's my first batch done from taking a totally random photo, posterizing it and finding small compositions in it...and then using them as a base to paint.  Because I am who I am, I don't follow the photo but do my own color palette and work with what's happening on the paper.  FUN!

Here they are cropped so you can see each one and oriented to where I like them today.  They are in the 5 x 7 range each so they'd make nice original greeting cards! 

Which one is your favorite and why? 

Oh yes and WELCOME to my new blog on my new website:  https://rachelmurphree.com  I'll be updating this one from now on, while keeping the older blog online.  You can catch up with my artistic progress from the past five years @ rachelm.wordpress.com