May Featured Artwork and Desktop Calendar: “The Woodland Garden”
So Mimi is once again the subject of my featured artwork. She is probably the most frequently featured feline in the household! Normally I like to vary my featured art each month among felines and composition and colors and media, but my woodland garden is blooming like this already and Mimi and I have been spending time there, and this sketch is so springy it couldn’t be featured any other time.
From May 22, 2014:
This is what Mimi and I did this afternoon. The woodland garden blooms mostly at this time of the year, and is pretty much just shades and textures of green otherwise, but I enjoyed looking at it and how it’s evolved. Winter storms brought down limbs and whole small trees and portions of it had been overgrown until I had the chance to clear those out and renew the groundcovers. The ferns and periwinkle are back on the right, and the cranesbill geraniums, bluets and spring bluebells are back on the left.
Outside of this area the sun is shining on the yard and vegetable garden with brighter blue and yellow of the forget-me-nots and buttercups. Birds are landing the bird bath and the feeder, and Mimi loves to wander up and down the path, though she spent a good bit of my sketching time as you see below, directing me in details as felines are masters of detail.
Even though work was heavy around that time, all I could focus on was to try to do this sketch I’d been visualizing for the previous few days when Mimi and I were outdoors. It was all I could think about at that moment. Sometimes that’s what happens when I go on overload. So I did. Spending time outside of my work space and focused on artwork clears my mind as nothing else does and I come back with everything in order and ready to work again.
Where to find this artwork
“The Woodland Garden” is available as a framed original sketch and a variety of digital, giclee and canvas prints and a greeting card. You can find the framed painting and prints on Portraits of Animals as well.
Current New Member Print
You might notice that my new website, Portraits of Animals, has gifts for those who sign up for an account. Right now Current New Member Gifts are all prints from all of my galleries.
As part of this program, the monthly featured artwork and desktop calendar will always be one of the choices, so that means the current artwork, “The Woodland Garden”, will only be available as one of the monthly prints until May 31. On June 1, that will be replaced with the June featured artwork.
This month’s desktop calendar
I’ve worked this image into a desktop calendar for you to enjoy and use for the entire month. If these sizes don’t work for your device, or if you have problems, please let me know. Often I can troubleshoot the reason an image won’t download or won’t load on your device, but if I just can’t figure it out I can just email it to you and hope that works.
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Beautiful B…..Thanks!
What a stunning woodland garden!!
Beautiful choice for May.