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Gardens & Botanicals

This board is all about gardens, garden paintings, garden portraits, painted gardens, and all things garden. Botanical inspiration, plants, houseplants, and beautiful inspiring painted gardens.

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Michelle Darwin - Fine Art - Landscape Paintings - Art Prints

the book, artists and their gardens by virginia wool's garden is sitting on a table

Book reviews – My top books about Artists & Their Gardens – Inspiration, Motivation, Creativity

My top books about artists and the gardens that inspired them, quick and fun review of each book, plus a bonus inspiring video, by artist Michelle Darwin (Painted Stories). Pictured: Virginia Woolf's Garden: The Story of the garden at Monk's House by Caroline Zoob. Fine art, writer, storyteller, embroidery, garden design, garden inspiration, artist community, creativity art, how to be more creative art, how to live a more creative life, how to become more creative, overcome creative block, get inspired, feel motivated, find inspiration. Landscape art, garden inspiration, gardens and art, gardens, art places and spaces, sense of place art, garden design, residential architecture, landscape architecture, garden plans, joy inside out.

a table topped with art supplies and a bowl filled with paint tubes on top of it

Art painter aesthetic: painting studio, art supplies, behind-the-scenes - coastal landscape painting

Pictured: Potted Snowdrops, snowdrop flowers from a neighbour, original small painting. Created with gouache on tan coloured mixed media paper. Showing my studio table, supplies, art supplies, hands creating art. Feel inspired, learn to live a more creative life. Inside the studio of Nova Scotia artist Michelle Darwin (Painted Stories). Go behind-the-scenes and see her top tools (mostly DIY) for creating quick compositions, sketches, and her process for going from those sketches to finished studio paintings. Develop a daily art practice, learn to paint, painting process, behind-the-scenes, how to. Motivation and inspiration. Art painting lesson. How to daily art practice. Working from photo reference or from life or even imagination. Painting tools, meet the artist original. Read the post!

the book seeds and dust sits on top of a wooden table next to some flowers

Book reviews – Top books about Artists & their Gardens – Inspiration, Motivation, Creativity

My top books about artists and the gardens that inspired them, quick and fun review of each book, plus a bonus inspiring video, by artist Michelle Darwin (Painted Stories). Pictured: Seed to Dust: Life, Nature, and a Country Garden by Marc Hamer. Fine art, original artists painting, art history, international art, art stories, artist profiles, artist painter aesthetic, creativity art, how to be more creative art, how to live a more creative life, how to become more creative, overcome creative block, get inspired, feel motivated, find inspiration. Landscape art, garden inspiration, gardens and art, gardens, art places and spaces, sense of place art, garden design, residential architecture, landscape architecture, garden plans, joy inside out. Writers and their gardens.

Book reviews – My top books about Artists & Their Gardens – Inspiration, Motivation, Creativity

Seed to Dust: Life, Nature, and a Country Garden by Marc Hamer. Writer's and their gardens, professional gardener, estate gardens, poetry, prose, writing, memoir, personal story. Top books about artists and gardens, quick and fun review of each book, plus a bonus inspiring video, by artist Michelle Darwin (Painted Stories). Fine art, writer, storyteller, garden design, garden inspiration, artist community, creativity art, how to be more creative art, how to live a more creative life, how to become more creative, overcome creative block, get inspired, feel motivated, find inspiration. Landscape art, garden inspiration, gardens and art, gardens, art places and spaces, sense of place art, garden design, residential architecture, landscape architecture, garden plans, joy inside out.

the artist's garden book on a wooden table with flowers and paintbrushes

Book reviews – My top books about Artists & Their Gardens – Inspiration, Motivation, Creativity

a painting of flowers in front of a window with the words houseplants in the window

Aesthetic art: painting of houseplants in the window – by contemporary artist Michelle Darwin

This painting is a fine art painting created with gouache on watercolour paper. It shows potted houseplants on the windowsill indoors. Joy inside out, colour, planting, plant art painting, plant art print, gouache illustrations, gouache painting, affordable artwork, affordable art, small size affordable art, ready-to-frame. Painting mood, colour, aesthetic art, season aesthetic, art painter aesthetic. Original art painting for sale, buy original art and prints from artists, art contemporary artists. Blue, green, simple, still life, potted plants, houseplants, leafy plants. Buy original art direct from the artist. Original painting by contemporary Canadian Nova Scotia artist, Michelle Darwin (Painted Stories).

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House plants on the Windowsill - Original painting for sale by artist Michelle Darwin

a table topped with lots of art supplies next to a bowl filled with paint and pencils

Potted plants in the window – Affordable original art – Small gouache painting by Michelle Darwin

Potted sedums awaiting spring, original painting by Michelle Darwin. This painting is a fine art painting created with gouache on watercolour paper. It shows a window in late winter with sunlight spilling through onto three potted plants. Planting, plant art painting, plant art print, gouache illustrations, gouache painting, affordable artwork, affordable art, small size affordable art, ready-to-frame. Painting mood, colour, aesthetic art, season aesthetic, art painter aesthetic, contrast, light/shadow, sunlight, bright sun, late winter. Original art painting for sale, buy original art and prints from artists, art contemporary artists. Buy original art direct from the artist. Art studio aesthetic, painter aesthetic. Original painting by Canadian artist, Michelle Darwin (Painted Stories)

a painting of some flowers in a blue vase on a white tablecloth with purple background

Snowdrops from a Neighbour in early spring. Potted flowers. Original painting by Michelle Darwin.

Snowdrops, painted snowdrops, potted snowdrops, white flowers, spring flowers, spring ephemerals, potted bulbs, spring bulbs, woodland bulbs. Still life painting, flower painting, gouache on paper, small original art, affordable original art, collect contemporary art. Simple painting study. Purple, black, yellow, green. Floral painting. Canadian artist, Nova Scotia artist. Portfolio of art. Gallery. Art gallery. View and collect art.

a painting of a blue shed with trees in the back ground and bushes growing out of it

My Top Books About Artists & Their Gardens — Painted Stories by Michelle Darwin

Book review, top books, artists and their gardens, gardening and art, creatives, creative life. Reflections on creativity, creative flow, inspiration. A painting of the early spring garden. Original painting gouache on tan paper, cold frames, nursery, shed, bird bath, muted colours, early spring, quiet landscape, country life, country garden, paintings of gardens. Collect original art, contemporary original art, small art, small artworks, affordable art, small paintings.