Tendrils

This was Maggie’s favorite painting.
If you know, you know.

Pea season was outstanding this year.
A long slow spring with plenty of rain.

I want to take you behind the scenes a bit.
Out with me into that spring garden…

You can see what sort of jungle we were playing in…
This was the snow pea tower which was on the cusp of its harvest.

Across the walkway were the bush peas which you will recognize as the backdrop for this painting.

Both Maggie and Herself were insistent that I NOT spend the entire year trying to paint EVERY…SINGLE…PEA.

The Muses fought them off…at first.

Even with the heavily selective editing
which was designed to create a lacework screen to reveal the ocean beyond
it took me weeks and weeks and weeks to render pod and leaf as honestly as I grew them.

The tendrils painted themselves.