Gorgeous Spring Time Down Under!

While Northern Hemispherians are enjoying their Sunday drives through spectacular display of autumn leaves, down under we are enjoying the beauty of spring.

Here in Invercargill, the Parks Department seems to outdo themselves each year with their displays of tulips intermingled with all variety of annuals and perennials used as annuals. Most any drive through town will afford the opportunity to enjoy floral beauty everywhere.

Queens Park, which I consider to be one of the most beautiful parks I've ever been in, is home to what I'm sure is some of the largest rhododendrons on earth. Some of them, over 100 years old, are larger than many two story houses...fair dinkum...or down under for...I ain't lyin'!!! In fact, if you ask me to, I'll see if I can dig up the photos of my daughter standing in front of one of them. It'll be a bit of an undertaking because my computer died a few months ago that contained most of my photographs. I think we've rescued most of them. At any rate, I could just drive over and take photos if I had to.

My purpose for bringing all this up does relate to my quest to complete a painting daily. For my daily efforts, I've decided to go back to painting flowers, which is the first kind of thing I drew when I came to New Zealand, back when coloured pencil was my medium. I was simply blown away by the abundance of incredibly gorgeous flowers of all varieties everywhere.

I've also come to another decision. A painting a day to me does not necessarily mean starting and completing it in one day. If I'm not happy with it, and a few extra licks of paint the next day, or the next, will make it better, then so be it. So far, I've started two rhody works, almost completed one to my satisfaction, and I'm finishing up on a painting of a calla lily. This is in addition to working on two Stewart Island paintings and doing a lot of mulling over two paintings for Ephemeral Perception.

So, yes, I've been one busy artist, which is why I've been late this week with my post. I'm not going to post any of these paintings until I'm happy with them, which hopefully should happen by tomorrow or the next day(which is Saturday for me... with daylight savings on, we are now 5 hours behind and a day ahead of my folks back in Kansas...don't try to figure it out :) )

I'll see if I can find a picture of some of the gorgeous flowers around.

Kia Ora!

...and Blessings!