Red Geraniums

My friend Judy, loves her miniature red geranium
painting, which I painted for her years ago.



She always says, why don’t you paint some original miniatures for your
little shop?



Here is one framed in a gold gaudy frame. I painted this
composition years ago when I lived in Princeton, New Jersey.
I love it matted with a double mat, with a tweak of red.



My wonderful art teacher Mary Green La Forge taught us
how to create this miniature composition.



I can still hear her voice in my head, as I paint. Watch the shape, break that
line.



When I got up to the red geranium request on my list of
giveaway paintings, I went a bit geranium crazy.



My geraniums have been a bit water-logged these days. But
I thought why not just paint this composition.



So there I was painting red geraniums...
thinking happy thoughts,



When all of a sudden,
The sky grew dark
I could hear thunder rumbling in the distance.



“The wind began to switch
The house, to pitch
And suddenly the hinges started to unhitch
Just then the Witch
To satisfy an itch
Went flying on her broomstick,
thumbing for a hitch!”



Cocoa I think that we’re not in Kansas anymore.



When the storm ended,



it left a waterfall of water cascading
down our garden steps.



Soon, we were out of the woods, out of the dark, out of the night,
and back to painting more geraniums.



Oh don’t worry Sam, we’ll get your toy and dry him for you. He’ll
be as good as new.



So, all my little red geranium paintings went traveling



down the yellow brick road right into my little shop.




I have designed a nice gift wrap, so that it is ready to give as a gift or treat yourself to a treasure.



The song for this post is a melody from the Wizard of Oz called Optimistic Voices.


Now back to painting other miniatures from my garden of giveaways.