Kathy Anderson: Bringing The Garden Indoors

For many of us, our moms had a lot to do with our passion for flowers. When springtime hits and the flowers are everywhere, we wish they would last forever. What if you could capture your favorite flowers, flowering trees, or garden, with the emotion you feel when you see them? What if those flowers you love so much could hang on your walls forever and remind you of spring on those cold gray gloomy winter days? Throughout history, artists have certainly taken notice and captured the beauty, radiance, and grace of the garden. Monet’s Water Lilies and the gardens at Giverny… …Van Gogh’s Sunflowers… …Georgia O’Keeffe’s Red Poppy… But painting flowers is difficult for most people because they’ve never been shown the right ways to depict the glowing light on the petals and leaves, and how to capture the emotion within flowers.  The truth is that anyone can discover how to paint captivating garden scenes. “Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to unde