Courtyard ~ Desert Botanical Garden

8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas

$150 + S/H




another beautiful day at the DBG painting with the Scottsdale Art League.

Next weekend is a 3 day sale of the 40 artists who painted in March on Saturdays.

Thanks DBG!

Desert Garden Home

18 x 24 inches Oil on canvas



Today at the Desert Botanical Garden plein air event. Started at 9am with the lovely morning shadows and light coming over the building hitting the bushes. The Cardon Cacti on left were planted in 1940, and I'll post final version tomorrow. That's a Boojum tree straight ahead, an elephant tree on right and the bush on right is a... oops drawing a blank. Butterflies and hummingbirds love the red blossoms. It's nearly gone by.



A photography class capturing the three figures


bronze sculpture



of Allan Housner. Here are a couple more of the 18 of his pieces in the DBG
Another show of his at the Heard Museum in downtown Phoenix.

Elephant Cacti ~ Desert Botanical Gardens AZ

11 x 14 inches Oil on canvas

Did this get too precious and overworked from initial one below?

These are elephant cactus, native of Baja CA, planted in 1940 from little plants carried in buckets to original Webster estate.

Initial painting with surprise guests showing up!

Boojum Tree & Adobe

12 x 12 inches Oil on canvas

This is part of the original home of the Websters who gave their estate to become Phoenix's Desert Botanical Gardens. Some of the original cacti and plants came from Baja CA in 1940.




Here was the underpainting from same spot last year.



And here is the first one I did three years ago. Note that the tall cactus in the middle is now gone from the garden alas.