Roses

The petals of the roses were painted with a brush loaded with three colors. The base of the brush had clear water, the middle had light red color and the tip had dark red color.

Roses

I painted this rose several months ago, before I took a better look at the leaves of a rose.

Roses

I did this painting in a style like mosaic tile.

Desert Sea

I never got around to finishing this painting. Something like two or three sailboats on the sea would seem right to me.

Daisies

The daisy belongs to the Asteraceae family of plants. The Asteraceae family comprises more than 23,000 species.

Dandelion

The name of dandelion comes from Old French; dent-de-lion means lion's tooth in Old French.

Carrots

The first wild carrots are believed to have come from Afghanistan. Selective breeding over the years has transformed the wild carrot into a variety of modern carrots.

Chrysanthemum

The chrysanthemum was first cultivated in China as early as the 15th century BC.

Bottles

This sketchbook image came to me in a dream. Lots and lots of bottles pouring out smoke.

Pigs

Three pigs painted in sepia in my sketchbook.

Hamster

A small watercolor from my sketchbook.

Freesia

Another small watercolor from my sketchbook. The freesia flowers grow in a one-sided spike of narrow funnel-shaped blossoms.

Bouquet

This is another painting from my sketchbook. This flower bouquet was assembled by my wife from cuttings from our backyard.

Freesia

This painting comes from my sketchbook and was done in watercolor. Freesias originated in Africa. Freesias are a common garden plant and give off a pleasing fragrance.

Snow

I publish this on August 17th in the middle of summer. Somehow a cold winter snow scene makes sense today.

Pumpkins

The pumpkin is grown all over the world. The pumpkin is prepared as a food in various different ways in the countries of the world.

Pumpkins

The orgin of the pumpkin is most like in Mexico, thousands of years ago.

Shells

This was an exercise painting tropical sea shells.

Roses

The leaves of the rose are alternate and pinnatley compounded. Pinnate is a term used to describe feather-like leaf structures.

Red Onions

Red onions are sometimes called purple onions.

Sunflower

This painting has a significant error. The sunflowers face is various directions. Cultivated sunflowers exhibit heliotropism: the flower follows the sun across the sky and then return to face east at night. Therefore, all of the flowers should face in the same direction.

Sunflower

The sunflower in native to the New World. The sunflower was first domesticated in Mexico about 2600 BC.

Hibiscus

This painting makes me think of a choir of Hibiscuses singing to the morning.

Narcissus

I painted this sumi-e from a photograph of Narcissus blooming during the early spring in my backyard.

Fish

Fish are jumping with Lotus Flower in the background.