Posted November 8, 2013 Though I have been concentrating on landscapes for several years, now and again I reach back into my Asian brush painting roots and pull out a floral subject. This painting started as one panel and I decided it needed to be a threesome. Though still Asian inspired, my technique is actually the same as my landscapes. But instead of the whole painting being a colorful puddle, each petal is a puddle, that I drop other colors into and manipulate with gravity and my brush. By keeping each painting independent of the others, and painting it on the stark silver background, I hope to give it a bit of a contemporary feel. This painting is 10″ x 33″ (total image size), watercolor and gouache on 3 silver shikishis. I love our new mountain home of Jackson Hole, but I do miss the magnolias of Maryland in the spring. (Click on the above image and a larger one will come up.)