Wonderful artwork. God bless.

Always a treat my friend its fantastic!!!

Very pretty!!

First, you've made a wall of the flowers and stems: They are a wall of hue, forms, energies, bubbles, etc. And you've gotten real variance from bottom to top: The stems are a completely different section and energy; and the tops---leaves and blooms---are the completion, as if this were a journey from the rising stem-energies to the fulfillment in the flowers. (Which is what they do in nature, anyway...)

The stems have an almost 'cartoon' feeling, in the wiggly outlines; but you've filled them with those alcohol bubbles and undulating hues. (like watercolors.) And they're luminous. Then come the leaves, which are big a broad, and also painted as if with watercolor (because of the wash-like variations in the hues). (Some of your works feel very watercolorish; while others feel so much like oil...) Those leaves are kind of the 'wreath' that holds up the flowers.

And then the hydrangea flowers themselves: Lots of purples and blues; and I love that you're so child-like with the outlines---you don't try, with these, to make the petals highly detailed and variegated: You outline them like simple drawings, and you paint them with beautiful hues, each; with variation in each, to be sure---in some cases via the bubbles of that ink, in some cases via the lines of differing hues, in some cases via the watercolor-like variation within each hue. But they aren't the complex veined entities of some of your larger flower paintings: They feel like a visual child's carnival, a kindergarten (which meant, after all, a gathering of children in a garden---all dressed for a holiday, and crammed together having a great time). I love that aspect of this painting. And your flowers make a great conclusion to the journey...

Another small piece, at least on the computer: But very big in all you pack into it. And playful as well as intense. Some of the stems look like they're bubbling up from a spring---or streaming down into a spring. Amazing interpretation of the inner life of flowers...

(Carol, I'm at nearly an hour, and I must get up an image, and then get some sleep. I've only written 4 comments in this time---but I'll do more in a day or two. All terrific work...)

Thanks so much for your comment, Mark. They mean so much to me. It's interesting that you said the hydrangea flowers had a child-like look and feel to them. Once again I was inspired by memories of my mother's garden, and the magnificent hydrangea bushes. Everything is larger than life when you're a child, but these flower blooms were so massive, and contained so many different colors and shapes, they thrilled me beyond belief. I even had a hydrangea-print dress I wore and put hydrangea blossoms in my hair, and went to grade school feeling like I was a living hydrangea flower. Of course the hydrangea would become a grand source of inspiration. What I truly enjoy is recalling those wonderful childhood memories and expressing the feelings through my art. And sharing that beauty with others.