Lucky find on the short cut

Driving to the gym the day after a stormy night, I took the back way, and came upon two huge sunflower plants blown over by the fierce winds and heaped onto the road. Two gardners there hired to remove the storm debris, and they said that the person who owned of the little house with the sunflower garden wanted them removed, at least the fallen ones. So I changed course and took them directly home, put them into water and painted them. There are too many layers of paint here for a watercolor, (click to enlarge and you can see that). It would have made a better painting in oi, and I can use this as a study for that when I have more time.
I finally did get to the gym after painting.

Walking in Discovery Park

These black and orange feathers were in a pile in the grass; there had been a skirmish of some kind, but I hope that the colorful bird escaped the jaws of whatever was chasing it...a hawk or maybe the eagle whose nest is nearby. It was difficult to capture them in paint so the feathers themselves are included in this photo. They seemed much brighter out in the sunlight than here in the studio under simulated sunshine lights. Could they be from an oriole?

Gallery partners

Just for fun, here are two of my business partners on Halloween at our monthly meeting.

Today's "artwork"

No candy for us - just a Halloween centerpiece tonight.

These are the kinds of paintings I do when I am at the Gallery and business is slow. They are watercolors on cotton paper, about six inches square. I left the best one there - maybe it will sell...and help pay for parking.

Play date ponies

This painting is sold.

Experimenting with different paper and brushes means many surprises.

Morning turn out