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Trillium

 

18”x24”, acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas (with image painted around the 1” profile so no pressing need to frame), $1400 plus s&h to the first asking nicely. View her in a room setting, get your nose right up into her business, or make her your own right here. Trillium is available to ship late December. Payment plans available on request - 30% non refundable deposit reserves the painting, with 6 months to pay off the balance plus s&h. Questions can always come my way.

make her yours

I thought she was done the week before Christmas, when our heavy blanket of snow from the prior two weeks was melting. Temperatures shifted to the 40s, with rain predicted. While I knew it wasn’t a true end-of-winter melt, spring couldn’t help but creep her way to the easel. I am a rabid optimist after all.

However, I got my due. Today I added a bit more magic to her along with my signature, all while blizzard conditions raged outside. Which makes her all the more glorious - soft, summer night skies sprinkled with dancing pansies and trillium. A stark contrast to the drifting snow and wind battered bare trees.

What will show up on the easel tomorrow? will it be more spring, or something a bit more seasonal? I guess we shall have to wait and see.

Meanwhile, thank you so much for your interest in and support of my artwork.

Love you, Kim

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