Another beautiful and warm spring day that has me so happy after the long, icy winter we endured. Glad that is behind us for a while. Today I worked more on the background of the dahlia painting than the petals. I played with dioxazine purple and some Thalo green with white. Still not satisfied with the color palette colors but I’m enjoying the experimentation. I’m lowering the saturation in the most distant petals, so they’ll relate more with the atmosphere surrounding them and differentiate them from the closer petals.

In the garden, the Grape muscari are in bloom today. Every year when they bloom, they remind me of the digital imaging piece I made of them many moons ago. Prints of this artwork have been hanging in many homes over the years. As a matter of fact, they’re still for sale on my website under the link, Designer Prints.

These daily studio notes lead toward my 2026 solo exhibitions in New York City and  Poughkeepsie, NY.