Out on the patio table, 4″ house painting brush in hand. I hated the sky – just before I threw paint on it. Home from Kauai, resting up against the garage door – all done. It became Carol Hannon’s painting within two weeks. Some go fast. On the bed in the little room downstairs at Tommy and Steff’s on Kauai. I went over for a week on my own to paint and hang with my Kauai sister. I had just finished Fauchon Eclairs and got started on the dahlias. Normally I paint from the least interesting, least detailed to the most, which means that I paint the background first, and the focal point last. But I was really afraid of not being able to paint the delicate white petals. I didn’t want to paint it all and then... I was painting this just as I had agreed to show at Marin Open Studios for the first time. I was terrified of the leaves – all that detail! But I did them! I was working on the final layers of the bud at this point. This is the last piece I painted on 140 lb... 