"Still Life with Red Crock"

appox 18 x 14

watercolor
$50.00

I was working on letting the colors and the water play in the positive and negative spaces.

This painting reminds me of how I began gardening.  I started many years ago, assisting my grandmother in her garden.  She planted so much more than her energy could tend.  I planted, weeded and harvested more and more with her through the years.  As our garden became smaller and she sat more on the bale of straw under her apple tree, I learned how to work the soil and plan a garden.  When I planted my own, I only planted to have my own flowers to paint.  Grandma generously shared her fruits and vegetables, but not her flowers.  Now my garden grows each year.