100 Garden & Floral Oil Paintings, Original Artwork by Pam Holnback, 60/100

Triangle L Garden Gate
6" x 8"  Oil on panel
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In early December my husband and I stayed at the Triangle L Guest Ranch and Bed and Breakfast in Oracle, Arizona.  We'd never been to the Tucson area and spent several days exploring the desert surroundings.  Being at the Triangle L is like stepping back in history.  Many of the whitewashed adobe buildings were built in the 1890's.  Guests stay in cottages near the main ranch house.  The corral fence is built of stacked wood.  The ranch had several garden areas, lots of gates, doorways, outbuildings, a windmill.  It was great for getting me back to my garden series.

100 Garden Oil Paintings, Original Art Work from A Colorado Daily Painter, 4/100

8" x 8" oil on cradled panel
$185.00 + $10. s/h

Yesterday was a warm, beautiful Colorado spring day, the kind that make you want to get out and garden.  But, it's still too early to plant at this altitude.  Tonight is supposed to be only 28 degrees!  Anyway, I spent part of yesterday preparing the vegetable beds. While turning over the soil I noticed the colors and shadow of the shovel.  A garden painting!

100 Garden Oil Paintings, Original Art Work from A Colorado Daily Painter, 3/100

6" x 6" oil on board
$100.00 + $10. s/h
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Today about half the daffodils in our yard are opened and the rest are opening.  It happens pretty quickly.  Daffodils are a great flower for Colorado.  They're hardy in the cold and heat, although there's more cold than heat here in the spring.  They turn to face the sun, so it's as if they're looking around all day.  There are more than 1500 varieties! These must be a hybrid daffodil.  I got out my flower book and these are not yellow trumpets, the most popular; nor are they short or large cupped.  When we built our gardens and planted them years ago, it didn't occur to me to pay attention to what kind of daffodil they were.  Does anyone know?

100 Garden Oil Paintings, Original Art Work from A Colorado Daily Painter, 2/100

6" x 6" oil on gessoed board
$100.00 + $10. s/h
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Yesterday I took a class in Boulder from Micah Condon. During the class we discussed ways to use the internet as a marketing tool.  Besides all the great information he shared, one of the fun things about the class was having the opportunity to meet other Colorado blogger/artists:  Saundra Lane Galloway, Kim Conrad, Karla Nolan, and Carol Nelson.  Carol is about to complete her project, 100 portraits in 100 Days.  If you haven't seen her blog, go look at all the pieces.  Anyway, this got me thinking about all of the garden paintings I do,  and, I've decided to create my own 100 project.  I'm going to paint 100 garden related pieces during the next several months.  I'm not going to limit myself to 100 days, like other bloggers have done, but will continue the project through our short growing season.   This will allow me to continue to: work on larger pieces, one of my goals this past year;  travel and not post for several days at a time; and, not worry when one of our hail storms prevents me from getting out to do a plein air piece.

Colorado Springs sits at an elevation of 6,000 feet.  As a general rule our last frost date is usually Mother's Day, and our first fall frost can be any time after Labor Day.  So, right now in my yard, the daffodils are just blooming.  I took the photo below this morning.  Those of you who follow my blog know that in the summer I paint a lot of florals, many of flowers in my yard.  In the blog I'll talk about the perils of high altitude gardening and plein air painting.  But, I think it will develop though the season.

And, since I get to make up my own rules, I decided that the pansies from Wednesdays post will be # 1/100 since they're from my first time this year out w/ my plein air group, Garden Artists.