Category Archives: Garden

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Pick a Palette

Spring continues to burst into bloom in South Carolina. This week, I’ve made a few leaf prints in warm greens and yellows to add to my collection of collage fodder.  Thinking about what to make […]

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Spring Garden #1

As the weather warms, the spring garden is bursting with pink, yellow, and chartreuse.

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Spring Inspiration

As the weather warms and the garden bursts into bloom, the pinks and yellows dominate. This week I’ve gathered some wispy grancy greybeards, pink azaleas, and yellow flame azaleas for inspiration. I’m making new prints […]

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Lenten Garden #3

In this collage, I explore the delicate and bold pinks in the hellebores of the early spring garden.

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Lenten Garden #2

I hope you and yours are staying safe and healthy. This week I’m continuing my series of collages inspired by lenten roses and colors of the spring garden. I’m thankful for the opportunity to focus […]

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Lenten Garden #1

The subtle pinks and greens of the lenten roses (hellebores) in my garden inspired this composition. I combined monoprints that I made last week with images of tree bark and structures that I had made […]

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Lenten Garden, Work in Progress

The colors in the garden are lightening toward yellow and pink as spring approaches. Hellebores (also known as Lenten roses) are in bloom. I’m printing with the leaves and experimenting with paint colors. I’ll incorporate […]

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Winter Garden #7

The late winter (early spring) garden in South Carolina is still defined by the rain-soaked bark of trees. But the treetops are abuzz with buds forming and birds nesting. Mardi Gras colors seem appropriate for […]

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Winter Garden #6

Winter Garden #6 12×12 inches Monotype collage on paper @2020 Lucinda Howe   Crepe Murder – A Haikuchainsaw fever sproutscrepe myrtles lose their limbsmourned by daffodils  

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Winter Garden #5

The late winter garden is on the verge of bursting into bloom. The weather can be rainy or snowy one day and warm the next. So much potential!

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