Sonoma Painting Workshops | Kathleen Elsey | Lavender Paintings



Kathleen Elsey lavender painting,
"June Bloom, Study 1"
Matanzas Creek Winery and Estate Gardens
Acrylic on canvas 11" x 14"  Sold

How can I capture the beauty of the lavender at Matanzas Creek? What about the scent in the air as the lavender harvest begins? And the gentle breeze I hear? Mysteriously, I don’t feel it. Then I see it’s not a gentle breeze but a flock of birds almost silently flying overhead, wings sounding like the wind. One of my favorite sounds in the world. I was intending to paint the different colors of the lavender in this garden. Some deeper purple and some more blue -the difference in the Grosso and the Provence lavender. Kathleen Elsey, California artist

This painting made during a Kathleen Elsey Sonoma Painting Workshop in beautiful Bennett Valley, California. Join Kathleen Elsey in a painting workshop in Sonoma, California, Santa Barbara, California, Taos, New Mexico or Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.