Rubber Tree

This is an indoor plant companion, here in Connecticut, a Variegated Rubber Tree, something you'll never see growin outside, unless it's a potted plant on someone's deck, out for summer. Lovely markings on this tough rubber-like leaves. - Nancy Boudreau

Click here for a skiddillion Google images of Variegated Rubber Trees.

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

More of my art for sale in my Etsy Shop.

Lupine

This is a drawing of Lupine, another plant with which humans share a long history. - Nancy Boudreau

Click here for Google's image collection, showing Lupine around the world.

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

More of my art for sale in my Etsy Shop.

Enjoy the show, not the snow!

Nancy Boudreau

Bearded Iris

Iris come in an amazing array of colors and form, this one being "Bearded", referring to the fuzzy tongue that lolls out over its petals. These yellow-colored Bearded Iris are sometimes confused with the Yellow Flag Iris, a wet-loving invasive plant. - Nancy Boudreau

Here's a link to a Google Images page full of yellow iris. Can you tell which are "Flag" and which are "Bearded"?

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

More of my art for sale in my Etsy Shop.

Enjoy the show, not the snow!

Nancy Boudreau

Foxglove

Foxglove, also known as Digitalis, is an old companion plant that followed Europeans to America. We share a long history, full of fancy and close to the heart. - Nancy Boudreau

Here are links to Wikipedia and Botanical.com that tell story of our long acquaintance.

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

More of my art for sale in my Etsy Shop.

Enjoy the show, not the snow!

Nancy Boudreau

Day Old Daylily

I suppose we can call this "Day Old Daylily" as it's a drawing of a spent daylily. Caught it before it's complete collapse, while it's form was still languid. - Nancy Boudreau

Click here if you love daylilies!

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 is for sale as a set for $3200.

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

nb@nboudreau.com

More of my art for sale in my Etsy Shop.

Enjoy the show, not the snow!

Nancy Boudreau

Ground Nut

"Apios Americana" aka "Ground Nut"

Such tight, sculptural forms - these are the tiny flowers of the native wild bean we call Ground Nut. I've always loved these flowers for their shape and subtle color, and only just learned that this wonderful plant can also feed me. It is after all, a wild bean that produces tasty tubers too. There's an interesting history to this plant. Click on the links in this text for photos and more information.

- Nancy Boudreau

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 is for sale as a set for $3200.

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

nb@nboudreau.com

Enjoy the show, not the snow!

Nancy Boudreau

Prismacolor Flowers

"Gladiolus"

As relief from the ice and snow, I present to you the first of a series drawings, which were completed in 1997. Of the original twenty-two, sixteen are still with me and have been cheerfully brightening up the walls all these years.

The media is Prismacolor pencil on paper, a long-time favorite of mine. All the drawings, which 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 is for sale as a set for $3200.

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

nb@nboudreau.com

Enjoy the show, not the snow!

Nancy Boudreau

Enough Ice

Here are a few pics of the gang in the studio this morning with GirlyMan finally up on the wall. Another milestone - but something's bugging me. . . tell me, in your opinion, does GirlyMan need more "ice"?

- Nancy Boudreau

And let's not forget all the little ones - the many, many smaller paintings (several of which are framed) still eagerly waiting to find homes as they linger in my Etsy orphanage.

Click here to visit them.

GirlyMan Makeover

"GirlyMan" gets a makeover, dressed in black plexiglas and acrylic "ice" and almost completed.

- Nancy Boudreau

Finally Up

"How We See the World" is finally dressed and up on the wall. For exhibition, the blocks would extend and scatter over the surrounding wall, accumulating around the painting, as you see them here.

- Nancy Boudreau

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Progress of "November Descent"

A new painting begun. . . "November Descent".

- Nancy Boudreau

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Some Progress

Listening to books on tape while assembling and glueing, cutting profiles and then finally coming to halt when the Golden gel medium ran out. To be continued with the next shipment from Dick Blick.

- Nancy Boudreau

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Still Quietly Working

LIke any child, when you don't hear from me, you know I'm up to something.

I've been taking "a break" from painting to play with the third dimension and use up some old mat board. Of course, that doesn't mean that I've sitting around with my feet up, sipping coffee - haven't learned how to do that yet. This little detour entails cutting matboard into thousands of tiny squares, gluing the squares up into blocks, sanding the blocks, then texturing them.

Eventually, when there are enough blocks, they'll be nestled around the painting "How We See the World", creating a sculptural transition from the plane of the painting surface to the wall that it hangs on.

Why go through all this work?

Well, I need to do more than paint. I live in the third dimension, I want to create in the third dimension. Colors are lovely, but to put them in context is lovelier. "How We See the World" is in blocks of information and experience. Two dimensional ideas are lovely but can be more meaningful and lovelier still when we build them into our three dimensional existance.

Anyhow, what child doesn't love playing with building blocks?

Creative Forces

Not always pretty! Clean canvas disappears under chaos of color, pristine new paint tubes squeezed and crinkled, brush bristles mashed, food grade containers coated with layers of acrylic residue, a white apron carelessly smeared, a pallet of rainbows becomes thunderclouds at midnight.

- Nancy Boudreau

This painting is about 11 x 20 inches and is acrylic on gessoed wood panel, raw edges sealed with gel medium, all trussed up and ready to hang in your home or office. The text above is handwritten on the back of the painting, which is also signed and dated. Feel free to contact me directly at nb@nboudreau.com with questions, comments or a soul searching discussion of the workings of the universe (with humor).

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