One of my favorite plants- Coleus! I love the long lasting colors and exuberant leaves.I painted it from Dark to light- it was a challenge to get it right.

In my east side garden, there's a lot of shade- but in the summer it gets reflected light off the neighbor's windows- Wow- it's like spotlight! It was a challenge to get bright enough magenta to capture the moment.

I am always in the Garden early and spotted morning light on the blooming Hostas. This is a huge plant and it took a bit to compose my piece by showing "just enough". The Pan Pastels were really fun to enhance the wrinkled leaves on the Colourfix Paper.

I hosted the plein air group at my house. Everyone went exploring to find their muse. I stood on my front door mat and painted the Backside of the front garden and my herbs on the wall. Pan Pastel.

A Pastel of my HOT front garden, with Octopus bought at the PAL Summer Art Festival... no shade here!

The first year planted- and the bloomed in the shady eastside garden. To get them in any light, you have to get up early. it was really fun the paint them BIG!

I did a painting from a photo that I took of pots of decorative kale in the Garden Center. I brought it in to show some of my artist friends- everyone wanted to know what it was- It's just Kale.

The ferns each year retire last years fronds with their spore load as the new years fronds appear. I love their form and details.

I brought my reference photo to a NPS Paint in- and used pan pastels on sanded paper for this piece. It was fun to share pan pastels with artists who had not seen them in action.