This early painting really frightened me. It’s the second earliest here in this gallery. It was drawn on the watercolor paper for over a year before I put a brush to it. These roses were growing at the AARS test garden at Garden Valley Ranch in Petaluma. I have... 
The photo that inspired this painting was taken in the garden at friends’ Dean and Nancy’s home when they lived in Fairfax. It’s an Abraham Darby rose and became the earliest of my paintings here on my website. It’s also my first “fuzzy... 