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France 2016 - Flower Painting Workshops

There is nothing more inviting than a glider in a flower-filled garden, and nowhere I'd rather be on a cool day. I'm home after teaching two back to back workshops in Collierville, Tennessee, this week, and heading to St. Louis is a few days to swing a brush in my hometown with some of my favorite students in the whole world. As soon as I'm back from St. Louis, I'll be heading to San Diego, California, but before leaving for these trips, I'm hosting a double double giveaway on my Facebook fan page. Check out my page for a chance to win Breakfast Nook Hydrangeas, a fine art print. I'll be announcing the winner Wednesday night, and may the flower force be with you!

Sunday, May 10, 2015

A Dallas Arboretum Tour and Willow Loop Wildflowers - Flower Painting Classes and Workshops by Nancy Medina Art

Willow Loop Wildflowers

by Nancy Medina

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Oil on Museum Quality Panel

France, Italy and the US - Flower Painting Workshops

A wet winter and spring have brought on the most colorful wildflower bloom in years in the Texas Hill Country. Willow City Loop is just outside the historic town of Fredericksburg, Texas, where I teach each spring. We also have plenty of blossoms up here in North Texas. The Dallas Arboretum has constructed an array of new rose arbors this year, along with some fun Texas-themed topiaries. Visit my art blog today for a photo tour for those who haven't visited yet this season - enjoy!

Friday, April 17, 2015

Spring Rains Iris Garden - Flower Painting Classes and Workshops by Nancy Medina Art

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Spring Rain Irises

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Oil on Deep Gallery Wrap Canvas

France, Italy and the US - Flower Painting Workshops

This morning my iris garden was struggling to regain its footing after the cool rains yesterday. A flock of yellow blossoms had fallen to the earth, so I took up my garden scissors and brought them indoors for a modeling session. My four pug helpers accompanied me on this rhizome reconnaissance mission into the gardens.

I hope you've had some productive moments in your spring garden, with helpers nearby to keep you smiling - tomorrow morning I'm off to teach in New Orleans, one of my favorite places in the whole world - and I'm not just saying that because of the beignets, cher!

The studio models take a bow - and a dip!

Friday, March 6, 2015

A New Poppy DVD Double Feature - Flower Painitng Classes and Workshops by Nancy Medina Art

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Poppy Garden, Part One of my new DVD

France, Italy and the US - Flower Painting Workshops

I’m super excited to announce my new double feature DVD has arrived! With two full-length lessons on poppies and pansies, you’ll want to stock up on Milk Duds and popcorn, and maybe get a nice little four footed helper to sit in your lap during the show. Tomorrow morning I’ll be shipping out all the pre-orders to flower friends in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and across the US. No worries, though, I’m saving a poppy with your name on it! Here’s where you can order your copy….

Click here to order my newest DVD!

http://www.nancymedina.com/videos-2-nancymedina/pansies-and-poppies-double-feature-dvd

Poppy-Pansy Double Feature

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

My New Print Store - Maple Cottage Hydrangea Garden - Flower Paintings by Nancy Medina Art

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Maple Cottage Hydrangea Garden

by Nancy Medina

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Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

Visit my new print shop

I'm so excited to announce my new print store has finally opened. Thanks so much to everyone who has been so patient over the years, waiting for prints that took quite some time to arrive. Good things happen for flower friends who wait!

In a few days, I'll also be launching a new daily painting journal on my new Web site, featuring my new print store, free painting videos for you, and lots of exciting new colors and moving parts.

Here's a sneak peek where you'll see much more in the future on my new web site. Let me know what you think, I always love so much to hear from you!

Saturday, February 28, 2015

Hidden Hydrangea Garden - Flower Painting Classes and Workshops by Nancy Medina Art

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Hidden Hydrangea Garden

by Nancy Medina

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Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

France, Italy and the US - Flower Painting Workshops

Hidden Hydrangea Garden is the newest painting in Flower Mound Studio, with snow all day keeping the helpers and I pretty much house bound. Hidden Hydrangea is another painting dedicated to the memory of my great-grandmother's house in Palestine, Texas, a house that has wonderful childhood memories for me. Shady verandas, the haunted peacock bedroom upstairs, the big claw-foot bathtub, and the shed in the back yard with so many shadows and places to hide...all of these places still play a starring role in my dreams sometimes.

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Pink Azalea Cottage and My Great-Grandmother's House - Flower Painting Classes and Workshops by Nancy Medina Art

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Pink Azalea Cottage

by Nancy Medina

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Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

France, Italy and the US - Flower Painting Workshops

Pink Azalea Cottage is a scene that might seem familiar to anyone who has grown up in East Texas and seen the azaleas in full bloom. The cottage is a memory of my great-grandmother's home in Palestine, Texas, where she raised a family and had a garden and did all the cooking and housekeeping even though she was blind. Nanny used to be able to tell which plants were which by smell, touch and taste. My mother spent every summer of her childhood with her grandmother. Mom said she would take the train down from St. Louis to Palestine after school let out for the year, and the summers she spent in Palestine were the happiest times for her growing up.

If you walk down the path and open the back porch screen door, you'll enter Nanny's big kitchen, with the formica table. Beyond the kitchen, through a large arched doorway, you will find her formal living room, with a collection of plates from around the world along the walls, and her favorite rocker next to the radio just under the windows by the cuckoo clock. This is where Nanny spent every afternoon listening to her favorite gospel show. I imagine there were many, many days my mother was in her lap, being rocked to sleep, with the sound of birds outside the open screen windows, the clock chiming the hour and half hour, and the sound of the voice on the radio. What a dream come true it would be to be able to travel back in time and see this tableau, and my mother's golden curls, as she lay sleeping in her grandmother's arms.

Monday, February 23, 2015

Garden Dreamer Iris and Surprises in the Flower Beds - Flower Painting Classes and Workshops by Nancy Medina Art

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Garden Dreamer Iris Path

by Nancy Medina

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Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

France, Italy and the US - Flower Painting Workshops

On new year's day I had one beautiful, frozen white iris in my garden. Sadly, I did not see it until it was almost wilted. Today I was so excited to see a plethora of purple in my iris beds, these lovely bloomers decided to thumb their little iris noses at winter! I do hope it will be a good spring for my garden this year, and they don't all bloom too early. Sending happy thoughts for healthy rhizomes, and especially hoping the black iris blooms in April again!

Early bloomers testing the winter temps today!

Sunday, February 22, 2015

Blue Hearts Cottage - Flower Painting Classes and Workshops by Nancy Medina Art

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Blue Hearts Cottage

by Nancy Medina

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Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

France, Italy and the US - Flower Painting Workshops

Blue Hearts Cottage is the newest daily painting in Flower Mound Studio, a little scene from Coronado Island, California. I took the liberty of adding two tiny carved hearts under the window, the Valentine's Day holiday lasts quite a while here, it seems. Just inside the entryway on the little carved table in the foyer you'll find a box of Godiva chocolates. I saved one of the truffles especially for you...if you hurry it might still be there!

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Lavender at First Sight and Tuscany in June - Flower Painting Classes and Workshops by Nancy Medina Art

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Lavender at First Sight

by Nancy Medina

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Palette Knife/Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

France, Italy and the US - Flower Painting Workshops

Lavender at First Sight is the newest painting in Flower Mound Studio, I'm warming up my brushes for Tuscany in June. Pink clouds and cerulean skies seem absolutely appropriate for purple fields, don't you agree? One thing is for certain, I can never resist color....and chocolate.... You are invited to join me for a painting dream getaway June 6-13, to visit the Chianti region and tour some of the most beautiful villages of Italy. Prepare to be pampered in poppy fields in full bloom! Read more...

June 6-13, 2015

Painting Under the Tuscan Sun

Monday, February 16, 2015

Hidden Hearts French Garden - Flower Painting Classes and Workshops by Nancy Medina Art

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Hidden Hearts French Garden

by Nancy Medina

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Oil on Deep Gallery Wrap Canvas

France, Italy and the US - Flower Painting Workshops

Hidden Hearts French Garden was my class demonstration in North Texas today, and, as you can see from the class photos, there was a fashion theme afoot, or rather, ahead, or rather, on top of Le Head! Adorned in pink berets, these gals produced so many beautiful French vistas, I was brought to tears at one point. Or perhaps it was the sight of the chocolate covered donuts! Next stop is Shreveport, Louisiana and before you know it, Tuscany, Italy! I love my job!

Painting Brilliant Florals in Shreveport, LA

March 9-11, 2015

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Hidden Hearts French Garden on the easel

A fashion trend is afoot, I suspect, or ahead!

Thursday, January 22, 2015

How to Punch Up Your Color - Flower and Landscape Paintings by Nancy Medina Art

Green Meadow Lavender Farms

by Nancy Medina

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Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

France, Italy and the US - Flower Painting Workshops

Green Meadow Lavender Farms is the newest daily painting in Flower Mound Studio, I warmed up the purple brushes and mixed up warms and cools into my piles, planting them right next to the greens. Here's one of my favorite tips for punching up the color in your paintings.... Read more

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

White Rhapsody Rose Arbor and Braving the Harsh Elements in the Florida Wilds - Flower Paintings by Nancy Medina Art

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White Rhapsody Rose Arbor

by Nancy Medina

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Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

France, Italy and the US - Flower Painting Workshops

White Rhapsody Rose Arbor is the daily newbie in Flower Mound Studio, the landscapes are still calling my name and rose arbors are one of my favorite things to paint (and photograph) in the whole wide world. I have so many great images from Coronado, California, but White Rhapsody is based on the bougainvillea rose arbor we painted plein air in Florida last spring. You may recall that this was the "kinder, gentler" plein air class I taught where we provided tables and chairs under the beautiful Florida sun and 'neath the swaying palms. Once we were all set up and happy, content with knowing the owner of the property was quite happy we were painting his flowers, the neighbor's sprinkler system went off, making us all run for high ground. Just goes to show, you must be prepared for everything nature, and lawncare, throws at you whilst braving those harsh elements painting in the wild...

Sunday, January 18, 2015

Little French Houses - Flower and Landscape Paintings by Nancy Medina Art

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Little French Houses

by Nancy Medina

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Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

France, Italy and the US - Flower Painting Workshops

Little French Houses is the daily newbie in Flower Mound Studio, I've been having fun with my photo library from Southern France this week, and sense a few more of these landscapes will be appearing on my easel over the next week or so! My French brushes are all warmed up, and I sense lavender in their future...

Saturday, January 17, 2015

French Rest Stop Sunflower Garden - Flower and Landscape Paintings by Nancy Medina Art

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French Rest Stop Sunflower Garden

by Nancy Medina

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Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

France, Italy and the US - Flower Painting Workshops

French Rest Stop is a new sunflower garden in Flower Mound Studio, I was needing some warm color to chase away the winter chill and fused some of my favorite photos from my back yard garden along with my trip to France together to create this little floral-scape. My adirondack chairs are bright blue, so I shifted their color to white so they wouldn't compete with my blue flower beds in the foreground. I'm imagining a nice warm summer day, with temps in the high 90s, and an icy glass of lemonade nearby...

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

French Village Lavender and Sunflowers and an Arkansas Workshop - Flower and Landscape Paintings by Nancy Medina Art

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French Village Lavender and Sunflowers

by Nancy Medina

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Oil on Deep Gallery Wrap Canvas

France, Italy and the US - Flower Painting Workshops

French Village Lavender and Sunflowers is the newest painting in Flower Mound Studio, as the pug helpers lay about. I believe they are on strike, although they cannot hold up signs. It's more of a snoring laying about kind of strike. They don't seem the least bit excited about my big news today - I'm teaching my first workshop in Arkansas and you are cordially invited! *confetti!!* I'll be teaching in Hot Springs, a place I've always wanted to visit. Even better, it will not be in winter when I'm there. Here's a bit more info below. In the meantime, I have to wake up my snoring helpers and tuck them into bed. Sweet dreams flower friends!
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Painting Colorful Landscapes and Florals

in Hot Springs, Arkansas

June 26-28, 2015

A new village on the easel!

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Gone to Seed Lavender Fields - Flower Paintings by Nancy Medina

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Gone to Seed - Lavender Field

by Nancy Medina

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Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

Flower Painting Workshops

My new video

Flower Painting Workshops

I'm still channeling that place that makes gelato! Gone to Seed Lavender Field is the newest daily effort in Flower Mound Studio. I spent a bit more time on this lavender tribute, and really enjoyed putting in the tiny little trees in the background, and the subtle temperature shifts between the pale greens and blues that defined background hillocks and ravines. I kept the foreground bold and chunky, and softened edges in the distance. I moved values closer to one another in the distance, and stretched the distance between juxtaposing values in the foreground to create impact and dynamic color in the focal area. And after all that hard work, I treated myself to a gelato! The perfect way to end a warm summer day in....Texas (did you think I was going to say Italy?).

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Painting Under the Tuscan Sun - A Tuscany, Italy Workshop by Nancy Medina

Purple Pinnacle Lavender Field

by Nancy Medina

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Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

Check out My New Video Here!