Opportunity Knocks

Recently I was reconnected to a dear friend I had not seen in over 20 years.  She has become a master potter and teaches at a small gallery in southern California.  She's invited me to show some of my paintings and photography in a small show this fall.  So I am looking over my paintings and trying to decide which are formal and finished enough for such an exhibit.  Much of my watercolor sketching is done in journals or bound sketchbooks and are not really meant to be hung on display.  However, I've been working (slowly!) on a series of southwestern birds and a few of these will work.  Here is my painting of a Canyon Wren, which  I'm considering.  Since it's been off my painting table for some time, I now wonder if I need to punch up the contrast in the background by adding some darks into the blurred foliage.  I might even need to extend the painting on the left side to make the format more rectangular, than square.  Thoughts?  ;)

Canyon Wren at Sunrise

Once And For All

Greetings nonexistent reader!  ;)  

Here in the Sonoran Desert many a cactus blooms from March through May (and beyond).  The echinopsis variety sport many different color and sized blooms, but here is the grandest of them all.  Echinopsis candicans, hails from Argentina, I believe.  Except for hybrid varieties, the echinopsis bloom opens at night and wilts by noon or shortly thereafter the following day.  Thus this spectacular blossom lives less than a single day.

I photographed this specimen at the Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden this morning.  I have many more photos to share, but thought I'd go ahead and get something here on my 'waiting' blog.  

Welcome to my Sonoran desert world!  

Reserved

For future endeavors.

Meanwhile my photography (mostly Arizona nature) and some random artwork can be viewed at my flickr page, here;

Az~Kate's Flickr

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