Lily Pond

Lily Pond in June, oil/linen panel, 11x14, 2010

Today I joined my painting friends on an outing to Nancy's home, a way's out in the country. Her home there included a restored farmhouse, barn/studio, lots of acreage and this fabulous pond. This little study will help me with a few more paintings that I want to do of this subject. I tried to capture the backlit lighting using simple shapes of the trees and clumps of yellow Iris. The pink waterlilies continued to open up during the morning as I painted and the bull frogs sang us a serenade.