Is it gardening when I am planting flowers with my paintbrush? Is it gardening when I am painting wildflowers?
It doesn’t matter – sounds good in a blog post title and sort of works.
This is one of the popular 6×18″ sized canvases, begun with a few spots and slashes of color. I showed you these first 3 pictures in a post earlier this week.
Now for the more recent progress of this oil painting of poppies and lupine:
There needs to be grasses across some of the flowers for it to look real, but I can’t do that while the paint is wet or the grasses will be orange and purple. There is a messy poppy in the center (from left to right but sort of higher than center from top to bottom) that demonstrates the folly of this maneuver.
Now it is finished.
And, I know you are dying to know the state of our cat situation.
How have we altered Piper’s life? Look what we did yesterday:
Three tortoiseshell females and one solid black male. OH NO! HOW WILL WE TELL WHICH ONE IS PIPER WHEN THE NEW ONE GROWS UP??
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Jana, just now seeing how picking up a couple of new kittens turned out! 🙂 That’s a lot of cuteness! 🙂 Also loved your wildflower paintings in your other posts as well as seeing the flowers in your yard and other places. Such beauty!
Aw shucks, thanks Cheryl! Wish I could have included sound effects for you.
Adorable of course! You will remember, my daughter has ten cats, yes I said ten indoor cats and she knows them all. I however, can never remember who all the grey stripped ones are. Janet
I feel like a nutcase with 5, but figure that nature will take its course and we’ll be down to 3 within the year. Brutal, but true.
You’ve just become a crazy cat lady!
Gina, my crazy cat lady tendencies have been held in check by a stronger sense of common sense and a husband. He dropped his guard and together we became the Crazy Cat Couple.
I love the flowers, and I love the kittens.
Promise me you will stop adopting kittens for a while. We don’t want you to turn into one of those crazy, “cat” ladies!
Too late, Jon, because I already am one of those. It is only the good sense of Trail Guy that has kept things under control, and yesterday he was the one who wanted 3 and then the 4th kitten! We’ve had 5 in the past, but the numbers always decline because of where we live. Sigh. That’s one of the reasons for getting 4 yesterday instead of the 2 we had planned.
I LOVE happy endings! Those precious kitties have no idea how fortunate they are to have found a fur-ever home. May they live long and prosper (hey, name one of the Spock, maybe?)!
Sharon, what have we done?? Three have pretty solid names, but the 4th doesn’t yet have the right name. He is solid black with a long tail and so we’ve been calling him “Baby Piper”, which isn’t a real name at all. As they get more social and easier to photograph, I’ll try to show their personalities and explain their names. Yikes, yikes, and yikes!
Pipette, maybe?
Cute. But I never want to base a name on kitten cuteness because it is fleeting. A cat needs more dignity in its name.
Good point.
Pip?
My black cat is Bogie.
If neither of these “float your boat” then just let the kitten name himself. He will show you what his name is supposed to be!
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