Kaena Point Oahu

Remembering my hike up the leeward coast to Kaena Point, during my two week stay on Oahu a couple of years ago.

- Nancy Boudreau

This painting is 5" x 7" and is acrylic on gessoed mat board, in an 8" x 10" cream-colored mat, ready for framing. The text above is handwritten on the back of the painting, which is also signed and dated.

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Spatterdock II

Spatterdock is a wild waterlily that grows in the ponds around Connecticut. The flowers look like simple yellow knobs thrusting out of the water on thick fleshy stems. Their leaves are wide and look like perfect perches for frogs, though you'll never see one sitting on a lily pad.

"Spatterdock I" was stolen from the Washington Arts Association a couple of years ago. The Association is a good one, well-run, and their insurance paid for the loss.

- Nancy Boudreau, July 13th 2011

5" x 7" original acrylic painting on gessoed mat board, sealed with a clear acrylic gel coat and protected by a cream-colored mat with dust cover, backed with chipboard. The painting is signed and dated on the back and has the text above handwritten by the artist, myself.

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Painting to the Frame - Thanks Donna B.

A full-spectrum acrylic abstraction, conveyed in energetic layers of mat and semi-gloss, creating an overall effect of sweet harmony and a happy, satisfied peaceful feeling. Framed and ready to hang, I've signed and dated this painting on the back.
- Nancy Boudreau, July 11th 2011

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This painting is 14" x 16" (16 3/4" x 20 1/2" framed) and is done in Golden Acrylic mat and gloss paints on a recycled wood panel, in a recycled wood frame, and is ready to hang.

Tulip Tree Flowers

"Had a wonderful hike with a friend of mine over the Memorial Day weekend. Somewhere along the was she noticed a couple of pale green blossoms that had fallen from a tulip tree, a kind of poplar. Growing up in Colorado, she said she never would have believed that tulips could grow on a tree. And yes, they are unbelievable flowers."

- Nancy Boudreau, Sunday June 5th 2011

This is a 5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed and lovlingly textured mat board. Sealed with a gloss clear coat and delivered in a cream-colored 8" x 10" mat, ready for framing. The text above is handwritten by the artist on the back of the painting. This is part of an ongoing series of small works, paintings with prose and poetry, that was started in June 2007.

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Tree Peony

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"One month of undisciplined intent, doing everything but painting. There is so much happening in the spring - the time between mid-May and mid-June, one thing after another blooming or being born. And the freedom, finally, of being outdoors and comfortable. Time that (should?) would have been spent in the studio instead spent hiking, bicycling to work, or working in the garden. New flowers every day, fox kits, raccoon kits, goslings, fuzzy new creatures. How can I sit still and record it all? I must get out and live."

- Nancy Boudreau, June 4th 2011

This is a 5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed and lovingly textured mat board. Sealed with a gloss clear coat and delivered in a cream-colored 8" x 10" mat, ready for framing.

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Flowering Crabapple

I really don't know what these boughs were, crabapple, cherry, or pear, but they were fragrant and lush, and I just had to try to paint them. - Nancy Boudreau

This is a 5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed and lovingly textured mat board. Sealed with a gloss clear coat and delivered in a cream-colored 8" x 10" mat, ready for framing.

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Flowering Crabapple Bough

I really don't know what these boughs were, crabapple, cherry, or pear, but they were fragrant and lush, and I just had to try to paint them. - Nancy Boudreau

This is a 5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed and lovingly textured mat board. Sealed with a gloss clear coat and delivered in a cream-colored 8" x 10" mat, ready for framing.

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Mystery Bin Orchids

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Picked up this plant from the bargain bench of a local nursery - no label, no suggestion as to it's heritage. Two years later I was rewarded with profuse blooms of violet and chocolate, about 2 1/2 inches across and having a faint sweet-peppery fragrance early in the morning. Here, the indigo sky of morning before sunrise emphasizes their moody colors, lending to their mystery. Love them. . . "

- Nancy Boudreau

This is a 5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed and lovlingly textured mat board. Sealed with a gloss clear coat and delivered in a cream-colored 8" x 10" mat, ready for framing. The text above is handwritten by the artist on the back of the painting. This is part of an ongoing series of small works, paintings with prose and poetry, that was started in June 2007.

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Chopin Tulips

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"As beautiful as a Chopin nocturne, these creamy beauties were found in the sidewalk gardens of midtown Manhattan. Spring is a wonderful time to visit New York City." - Nancy Boudreau, April 27nd 2011

Listen to a Chopin nocturne while watching a slideshow of "Tulips in Instanbul". . . Or read about growing Chopin Tulips in "Paghat's Garden" or on "Backyard Gardener.com". . .

This is a 5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed and lovingly textured mat board. Sealed with a gloss clear coat and delivered in a cream-colored 8" x 10" mat, ready for framing. The text above is handwritten by the artist on the back of the painting. This is part of an ongoing series of small works, paintings with prose and poetry, that was started in June 2007.

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Orange Tulips

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"Made all the more interesting by their striped leaves, the contrast of violet-mauve and green against incandescent flame of color. These too, are New York sophisticates, gracing the sidewalk gardens at the foot of stately brownstone homes."- Nancy Boudreau, April 23nd 2011

Links to the Union Square Greenmarket, and a couple of sites that describe the delight of it all, Essential New York and What Is Fresh.

This is a 5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed and lovingly textured mat board. Sealed with a gloss clear coat and delivered in a cream-colored 8" x 10" mat, ready for framing. The text above is handwritten by the artist on the back of the painting. This is part of an ongoing series of small works, paintings with prose and poetry, that was started in June 2007.

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Easter Tulips

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"Again, in New York, some vibrant tulips blooming in a doorway - an old doorway with window grating and hardware that is out of this world."- Nancy Boudreau, April 22nd 2011

Links to the Union Square Greenmarket, and a couple of sites that describe the delight of it all, Essential New York and What Is Fresh.

This is a 5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed and lovingly textured mat board. Sealed with a gloss clear coat and delivered in a cream-colored 8" x 10" mat, ready for framing. The text above is handwritten by the artist on the back of the painting. This is part of an ongoing series of small works, paintings with prose and poetry, that was started in June 2007.

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Crazy Tulips

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"Union Square Greenmarket, a great place for flowers in the spring. These crazy-looking tulips, so appropriate for New York - sophisticated beyond recognition. Red-striped, yellow-frilled tulips, bleeding into my dreams."- Nancy Boudreau, April 13th 2011

Links to the Union Square Greenmarket, and a couple of sites that describe the delight of it all, Essential New York and What Is Fresh.

This is a 5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed and lovingly textured mat board. Sealed with a gloss clear coat and delivered in a cream-colored 8" x 10" mat, ready for framing. The text above is handwritten by the artist on the back of the painting. This is part of an ongoing series of small works, paintings with prose and poetry, that was started in June 2007.

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Blushing Tulip

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"Is it yellow, is it orange, is it pink? Blushing and shy, shell shaped petals just beginning to open - a tease. Bold gestures of fleshy leaves, a hand to the face, chin resting in palm. There is so much life in flowers." - Nancy Boudreau, April 4th 2011

Here's a link to a delightful little illustrated book called "Flower Stories" by Lenore E. Mulets, copyrighted 1903. . .

This is a 5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed and lovingly textured mat board. Sealed with a gloss clear coat and delivered in a cream-colored 8" x 10" mat, ready for framing. The text above is handwritten by the artist on the back of the painting. This is part of an ongoing series of small works, paintings with prose and poetry, that was started in June 2007.

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Open Tulip

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This is a 5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed and lovingly textured mat board. Sealed with a gloss clear coat and delivered in a cream-colored 8" x 10" mat, ready for framing. The text above is handwritten by the artist on the back of the painting. This is part of an ongoing series of small works, paintings with prose and poetry, that was started in June 2007.

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Tulip Kaleidoscope

"I wanted to give up on this one - it was difficult - the flower was so crude, so woody. So, I did give up, and just painted, taking care of the little things, enjoying stroking the paint, smoothing the surfaces, delineating edges, laying transparent color. And finally it began to glow and show the tidy contours that I found pleasing in the original flowers." - Nancy Boudreau

Here's a link to a delightful little illustrated book called "Flower Stories" by Lenore E. Mulets, copyrighted 1903. . .

This is a 5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed and lovingly textured mat board. Sealed with a gloss clear coat and delivered in a cream-colored 8" x 10" mat, ready for framing. The text above is handwritten by the artist on the back of the painting. This is part of an ongoing series of small works, paintings with prose and poetry, that was started in June 2007.

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Pink Tulip

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"These tulips are carved out of paint - nothing delicate about them. I think it is because of my state of mind - point of view lately - life is something to be dealt with, grasped, the course of events directed by the work of my own hands as they wrest a better outcome from what would otherwise be a floundering future." - Nancy Boudreau

I include a link here to "Tulip Mania" from Wikipedia as it touches on a bit history that recently repeated itself with a vengence, leaving us all in the dire economic straits from which we are now working out way out of.

This is a 5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed and lovingly textured mat board. Sealed with a gloss clear coat and delivered in a cream-colored 8" x 10" mat, ready for framing. The text above is handwritten by the artist on the back of the painting. This is part of an ongoing series of small works, paintings with prose and poetry, that was started in June 2007.

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White Tulips

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White petals lighting the darkness. There is so much color in white. - Nancy Boudreau

Google Images presents to us the biggest bouquet of white tulips you'll ever receive. . .

. . .and everything you ever wanted to know about tulips, from Wikipedia.

Another of my 5" x 7" acrylic paintings on mat board, available for sale through Etsy and EBay. Lovingly created, painted on a carefully prepared and textured surface, sealed with clear gloss, it is protected in a cream-colored 8" x 10" mat, ready for framing.

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Stargazer Lily

The ever-seductive Stargazer, Asiatic Lily, fair of form and fragrance. - Nancy Boudreau

Stargazer Perennials shares with us the history and culture of the Stargazer. . .

and Wikipedia adds an interesting note about this plant, of interest to pet owners. . .

This drawing was created using Prismacolor pencil on paper, a long-time favorite of mine. All the drawings of this set of sixteen, are 4.5" x 4.5", are under cream-colored mats and framed in honey-colored maple, ready to hang. Each framed piece measures 16.5" x 16.5". The series, which was completed in 1997, is for sale as a set for $3200. They are made available to you directly from the artist.

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Trumpet Vine

Ta da!!! Spring is coming. - Nancy Boudreau

Life123 shares the secrets of growing trumpets vines here. . .

and Google regales us with image upon image of every Trumpet Vine imaginable. . .

This drawing was created using Prismacolor pencil on paper, a long-time favorite of mine. All the drawings of this set of sixteen, are 4.5" x 4.5", are under cream-colored mats and framed in honey-colored maple, ready to hang. Each framed piece measures 16.5" x 16.5". The series, which was completed in 1997, is for sale as a set for $3200. They are made available to you directly from the artist.

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Maidenhair Ferns

Ferns, especially Maidenhaid Ferns, are absolutely delicate yet so enduring. How is it that such a tender thing has survived through eons of this world's rough handling? - Nancy Boudreau

Wild Maidenhair Ferns in Connecticut. . .

Garden Guides informs us on how to grow these beauties ourselves. . .

This drawing was created using Prismacolor pencil on paper, a long-time favorite of mine. All the drawings of this set of sixteen, are 4.5" x 4.5", are under cream-colored mats and framed in honey-colored maple, ready to hang. Each framed piece measures 16.5" x 16.5". The series, which was completed in 1997, is for sale as a set for $3200. They are made available to you directly from the artist.

If you're interested in seeing the originals, or purchasing the series, contact me at:

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Daisies

Daisies are the flower of optimism. - Nancy Boudreau

Wikipedia gives us the botanists' lowdown on the daisy. . .

while Daisy Paradise gives us the laymans' tour. . .

This drawing was created using Prismacolor pencil on paper, a long-time favorite of mine. All the drawings of this set of sixteen, are 4.5" x 4.5", are under cream-colored mats and framed in honey-colored maple, ready to hang. Each framed piece measures 16.5" x 16.5". The series, which was completed in 1997, is for sale as a set for $3200. They are made available to you directly from the artist.

If you're interested in seeing the originals, or purchasing the series, contact me at:

nb@nboudreau.com

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