Spring Meadow Impressionist Painting After Monet Painting

I painted this piece just yesterday (March 11th 2024) in a flurry of enthusiasm for the signs of spring emerging all around me in my home of the Northern California East Bay. The magnolia tree in my garden is a magnificent bouquet of huge pink cupped blossoms and the leaves are beginning to emerge with their acidic lime green providing nature's perfect color contrast to their milky blue-based pinks. Our plum tree is in riotous full flower and the poor persimmons look on with nude-branched envy. The new Klimt Landscape show at the Neue Gallery in New York made me think of his use of color and brush stroke in women's dresses and while I was contemplating spring and my favorite museums I thought of the magic of Monet's many waterlily paintings (some of which I have been lucky enough to see in museums around the world). Anyway, I was thinking about the wildflower blooms that are so abundant over the next couple of months up and down the coast and of how Klimt or Monet might have painted them, and this is the result of that musing. I am, of course, no Klimt or Monet, but I did have a marvelous time dreaming and painting and reveling in the spring florals all around me and I think that shows in this happy floral painting. It is painted on cradled birch board with a deep cradle of around 2.5 inches. It can be framed or hung as is. The paint is acrylic gouache, which provides a richly saturated velvety matte color finish and holds brush strokes beautifully, preserving the movement of the artist's hand in the work. It will ship from my little studio near Oakland, CA, wrapped lovingly in layers of acid-free glassine paper and foam and bubbles and eventually placed in a box. Note: the colors are slightly brighter than shown in the main image, in my excitement to share it I photographed it myself. I will upload a new primary image once it has been properly photographed. In the meantime, one of the corner images with the good window light offers the closest color rendering.