For my website debut, I am starting with a flower theme. I will be featuring a painting in my homepage every so often.
So let's begin our journey with the peony flower. This is an original painting that I did in 2012 as a tribute to my garden. I have several peony bushes in the north side of my garden, behind the west fence and nearby the cherry tree. Peonies are gorgeous scented perennial flowers. I think I have the Itoh type, which is a hybrid of the herbaceous and tree. They require wire support around the base to keep them upright. The flowers are big and heavy that the stems bow down the ground if there is no support. I cut the stems in the fall and they sprout back in the spring. The flowers come in late spring and early summer.
So let's begin our journey with the peony flower. This is an original painting that I did in 2012 as a tribute to my garden. I have several peony bushes in the north side of my garden, behind the west fence and nearby the cherry tree. Peonies are gorgeous scented perennial flowers. I think I have the Itoh type, which is a hybrid of the herbaceous and tree. They require wire support around the base to keep them upright. The flowers are big and heavy that the stems bow down the ground if there is no support. I cut the stems in the fall and they sprout back in the spring. The flowers come in late spring and early summer.