We were walking on Easter Monday in Stockholm and the rose was laying in the cobbled street we were crossing. Easter was over, it had done its job and awaited smashing by traffic. I rescued it. It has dried and I, lacking energy to paint more ambitiously, rendered it. Now it will live a bit longer.
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Cactus Detail, pastel on board, 6×8″, 2018, by Jean Krueger, copyrighted with all rights reserved
The Desert Botanical Garden is beginning it’s spring bloom.
Exuberant Ponderosa Cone, 6×6″, wattercolor on board, Jean Krueger, 2017, Copyrighted with all rights reserved.
This pine cone is happy to be alive. http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/779940
Inverted Ponderosa Cone, 6×6″ on paper, Jean Krueger, 2017, Copyrighted with all rights reserved
Ponderosa pine cone standing on its head. http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/779585
Dangled Ponderosa Cone, 6×6″ on board, Jean Krueger, 2017, Copyrighted with all rights reserved
Dangled, unwound, spiraled top to botton, the cone of the pinus family is scratchy hard, buoyantly poetic. http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/779585
Arabiba, 12×9″, watercolor on 14O # Paper
These winged seeds come from a tree which can grow to over 100 feet in height. In Brasil the tree is used extensively in reforestation projects, urban landscaping and for its ornamental wood. The yellow flowers become really large, 4-6″ whirly-gig units which are blown far and wide. The seeds also have pickery spines that cling to fur, clothes or wherever they can get a grip. I painted these as part of an ongoig study of seeds, my interest in these being their enormous size. These are painted full scale.
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