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t-shirts white iris t-shirts red poppies t-shirts pink roses t-shirts spring garden t-shirts san antonio botanical gardens t-shirts en plein air t-shirts impasto effect t-shirts

paintings white iris paintings red poppies paintings pink roses paintings spring garden paintings san antonio botanical gardens paintings en plein air paintings impasto effect paintings

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White iris, red poppies, pink roses and other flowers painted en plein air in Spring 2018 at the San Antonio Botanical Gardens, with palette knife for an impasto effect. Original for sale at Art for the People Gallery in Austin, Texas. To purchase original online or for more information about the gallery, copy and paste the following link into your browser:https://artforthepeople.vendecommerce.com/wet-wild-a-wee-bit-of-whimsy/products/julene-franki-beautiful-spring Price for original below does not include sales tax or shipping cost if needed.

I am so lucky! When I was a little girl, before I even went to first grade, my mother took me to art school every week at Mrs. Jones'. Mrs. Jones was a farmers wife, but she was a trained artist. She had an art studio behind the farm house and that is where I learned to paint and draw with my lifelong best friend Clarice, who I called Ann Clarice then. I think Clarice's mom and my mom took turns taking us the "long" 15 minutes or so out to the farm once a week. I was painting in oils when I was 5 and painted, painted painted with Clarice and Mrs. Jones until I was in high school. My work of art: "Fruit, Wine and Sunshine," created when I was five, and which I won a blue ribbon for at the 1960 Jim Wells County Fair is an example of this...