When traveling in southern California, especially coming from the Arizona desert, it is the flowers that siren sing to me from every neighborhood and roadside. Say hello to Sea Lavender. The cloudlike bloom clusters billow above low growing foliage, and I exclaim when I see this amethyst color dotted with lighter lavender and sparkling white papery little blooms. Cloudlike is the shape and like clouds they deserve more looking. I’ve read they also can be pink, so I will be looking for those. On a footpath to the boulevard from South Carlsbad State Beach, I just got lost first in the ice plant greens, with their fat little quarter moon shaped leaves on the sandy path edge, but the purple amethyst and lavender balloon-like bouquets just free for the luxury looking, make such an inviting pause. It is sometimes called marsh rosemary or lavender thrift and it grows in salt marshes and on coastal dunes, so I painted a wild clump that made its own composition and color. Painted on site in acrylics on board, just 5” x 7”, when in So Cal, do open your eyes to the flora, and try not to be jealous of Californians whose abundance of so many blooms hardly seems fair to the rest of us. Every natural scene is interpreted by the artist, but some compositions, of which this was one, need almost no massage.
When traveling in southern California, especially coming from the Arizona desert, it is the flowers that siren sing to me from every neighborhood and roadside. Say hello to Sea Lavender. The cloudlike bloom clusters billow above low growing foliage, and I exclaim when I see this amethyst color dotted with lighter lavender and sparkling white papery little blooms. Cloudlike is the shape and like clouds they deserve more looking. I’ve read they also can be pink, so I will be looking for those. On a footpath to the boulevard from South Carlsbad State Beach, I just got lost first in the ice plant greens, with their fat little quarter moon shaped leaves on the sandy path edge, but the purple amethyst and lavender balloon-like bouquets just free for the luxury looking, make such an inviting pause. It is sometimes called marsh rosemary or lavender thrift and it grows in salt marshes and on coastal dunes, so I painted a wild clump that made its own composition and color. Painted on site in acrylics on board, just 5” x 7”, when in So Cal, do open your eyes to the flora, and try not to be jealous of Californians whose abundance of so many blooms hardly seems fair to the rest of us. Every natural scene is interpreted by the artist, but some compositions, of which this was one, need almost no massage.
#237 - Acrylic on Board
Painting: 5” x 7”
In Frame: 10 3/8" x 12 3/8"
