My friends Ginger and Jim Nelson own Olde English Garden Shoppe in Excelsior Springs, an outgrowth of their love of gardening and European art and antiques. (They live in a beautiful old Tudor-style house!) The garden at the shop is a marvelous place to paint, intimate and challenging. This August I decided to try gouache instead of my usual watercolor, there, to go along with the English watercolorists' love of that medium. It was great fun!
Detail Images
Work in progress
Simplification was definitely needed--this is a photo of the scene.
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