Contemporary Artists of Texas: DVDs videos

Glad Day Peonies was my class demonstration this morning during my Dallas Arboretum workshop - what a beautiful place to make flowers bloom! Stargazer lilies, glads and peonies were painted today (when you can't decide what to paint, why not paint it all?). I do think the chocolate cupcakes with sprinkles on top added a little something extra to the whole event, but that could just be the choco-holic in me talking. In addition to the outstanding helpers and volunteers at the Arboretum who make every workshop and event there enjoyable, it's such a treat to paint in the most beautiful gardens in North Texas. Next stop, my home state of Missouri and I get to stay in the haunted house again!

The studio models take a bow and a dip!

Saturday, June 21, 2014

Wild Abandon Hydrangeas and My New Video - Flower Paintings by Nancy Medina

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Wild Abandon Blue Hdyrangeas

by Nancy Medina

16X20

Oil on Archival Panel

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My new hydrangea video!

My blue brushes were all warmed up, so the hydrangea parade continues in Flower Mound Studio this week. There are some very important characteristics about hydrangeas that are singular to these flowers and really "tell the story" of these woodland beauties. My garden is full of hydrangeas, most of whom are refugees from earlier workshops. I buy them in pots to paint in class whenever possible, then plant them in my garden after class is over. It's the ultimate in recycling - paint the flower, plant the flower! I share the personality traits of hydrangeas, plus all my favorite color combinations, in my on demand video. Here's a sample for you....

Thursday, June 19, 2014

Blueberry Fields Forever and Using a Lavish Brush - Flower Paintings by Nancy Medina

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Blueberry Fields Forever

by Nancy Medina

20X20

Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

Commissioned Work

My new hydrangea video!

Blueberry Fields Forever shall soon be traveling to a new home in Iowa for a lovely lady who wished for a memento of Texas. I spread the paint thickly, and pulled all the crayons out of the box for this one, as my muse/friend Martha likes to say. In begin all of my paintings with thin transparent paint, ending with thick, fat strokes of pure color. What a joyful task it is, this gradual and strategic construction of powerful pigment. You can see how this occurs, step by step, in my new video.

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly, like a millionaire intent on going broke ~ Brenda Francis

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Le Petite Peonies and Sacred Art Spaces - Flower Paintings by Nancy Medina

Le Petite Peonies

by Nancy Medina

20X16

Oil on Archival Panel

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My new hydrangea video!

My new hydrangea video!

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My new hydrangea video!