Paint like it's 1982

I bought my first original piece of art in 1982.  A flowering cactus watercolor.  A simple painting with just a bit of the cactus with 3 little yellow blooms.  I LOVED that painting.  It hung on my wall for the next 30 years.  I can tell you that I looked at that painting many times and thought "I wish I could paint like that".  I allowed life to push my desire to paint back for a long time.  I have been painting with watercolors for about two years now and oh what a joy.  Today I decided to paint like it's 1982.  I like it. 

Painting is for sale in my Etsy shop

https://www.etsy.com/listing/186459151

 

Betty

Thank you for sharing in this little slice of my life

 

Day 5 of thirty paintings in 30 days "You say peony, I say piney"

This painting is very special to me.  Peonies were my Mother's favorite flower.  We had big pink blooms covered with big black ants at the side of the house every summer.  I have picked many bouquets to be stuck into a mason jar.   A mason jar of peonies were often taken to the cemetery for my grandparents' grave.  We used mason jars before mason jars were cool!  I was an adult before I heard this flower pronounced as "peony".  My Mother was from Arkansas, and she said "piney"!
"Go pick some pineys" she might say.  Well, I know now most folks say peony, but me, I say piney!

Mom, this piney is for you!

 

This painting is available in my Etsy shop

https://www.etsy.com/listing/174548934/nature-art-watercolor-painting-peony

 

Betty

Thank you for sharing this little slice of my life!