White Petunia

oil on panel, 12" x 12"

Taking a break from more complicated paintings I'm working on, I seem to have channeled my inner O'Keeffe with this one.  I've heard the symbolic meaning of a petunia points to anger and frustration.  Well, that would certainly be me lately, what with all the turbulence of these times we're living in.  But what does it say about us as a species that we would assign such negative traits to a flower, of all things!  Just sayin' . . .

 

Pedernal with Cottonwoods

iPad painting, 10" x 10"

Here's a plein air digital sketch I did last fall, facing that famous Cerro Pedernal from Ghost Ranch, just west of Abiquiu in New Mexico.  My perspective was not far from the cottage that Georgia O'Keeffe rented with a direct view of Pedernal, so this would have been her view as well.