The title for this came before I had any idea what the painting would be.
I wanted a challenge, and I got it when I decided to paint gold apples in a silver dish.
A friend asked if had painted any tulips. Since I haven’t, I wanted to try one. It is fall here right now, so I looked up tulips and found out you can have tulips in autumn. They have to be started in the southern hemisphere, then the bulbs are shipped here and treated specially so they will bloom in autumn. Pretty neat!
The organ has these two little statues on it, placed there by my mom at some point. When I got the organ, they had to go with it.
This is the book my great grandmother, Emma, used when she took organ lessons in 1905, the year before she got married. It is sitting on her organ and it is amazing to me that they have stayed together all these years.