"Shadows of Purple" by Tatiana Myers

"Shadows of Purple", 8 x 10"

Oil on panel.

Another 8x10" study  for Daily Paintworks.

Continuation of my "Lavender" series I started last year.

This is currently up auction.

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Lavender in Los Olivos Jane Ramsey

 "Lavender Fields," 17 x 7 plein air watercolor, Los Olivos, CA

Just outside of the little town of Los Olivos, CA is a charming lavender farm, Clairmont Farms. You enter down a long driveway lined with very old olive trees with great gnarled trunks. Beyond the trees' wispy long branches waving in the wind, is a sea of lavender that spans the property with majestic oaks springing up from the masses of color. Surreal.

I wish you could scratch and sniff the monitor! The smell was intoxicating and as I made my way out to the center of the field to do the painting above it became stronger. I set up under the shade of one of the oaks... the ground underneath crunchy with dry grasses. Beyond the lavender was a farmer's field in vivid greens. Soft breezes were filled with perfume. Honey bees were buzzing happily among the flowers.

"Sea of Lavender," 14 x 8 plein air watercolor, Los Olivos, CA

I  returned the next day to paint again. The blooms were at their peak and I didn't want to miss another chance to paint. When I drove by a week later the purples had turned to blues and they had begun to harvest the blooms.

LAVENDER BLUEby Claire Beadon Carnell 100 Paintings in 100 Days Challenge 'Inspirations from a Back Yard'29/100

'Lavender Blue'
Oil 5 x 7
29/100


Day 29

One of the prettiest scents in my garden,
I can never just walk by the lavender without
touching the flowers to get that scent on my
hands. Lavender was always present in the
gardens of my mother and my grandmother, so
the tradition lives on.

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'Lavender Fields of Provence' by Thom Glace

Transparent Watercolor on Arches 400 lb. Rough.

4.5" x 3" Miniature

From Personal Photograph.

Sold to a client in Columbus, Ohio

Thom Glace Watercolors

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