My New Art Project

I would like to have a botanical painted record of what is growing around the Dusty Victorian using photographs I took since we moved here. I'll start with the pink Peony and...

...the blue Iris.

They will be painted on book canvases no bigger than 5" X 7", seen here primed and ready for paint. This flower theme is a renewable source of inspiration, executed at leisure between commissions and it can be carried through difficult winter time.

The first step was to glue the books shut and let them dry completely.