Precious Opportunity

Some of my favorite paintings have been those of my children and grandchildren. Florence Delaney

Whenever Florence's grandchildren came to visit she dropped everything so that she could spend precious time with them.  They became the willing, and sometimes not so willing, subjects of her painting over the years. She kept a basket of old dress up clothes that included athletic garments and old prom dresses she sewed for high school events.  As her grandchildren played dress-up, Florence snapped photos.  Her grandson, Bryce, was into sports and loved his basketball shirt so one of her first watercolor paintings, Love of Basketball (11”x14”), was painted on cold press in 1999.  Her granddaughter, Rachel, selected a tiara to play dress up and Florence snapped a picture of Rachel.  Florence painted the oil-on-canvas, Little Princess (12”x16”), in 2017. Rachel’s sister, Michelle, wanted the to wear the tiara but was left with a simple lace hat.  The Pout (12”x16”) was painted in 2017 and is an oil-on-canvas that captures that moment of disappointment beautifully.  Florence and family spent a lot of time at their cabin where they had a fishing pond.  After a nap, and with bedhead hair, her granddaughters couldn't wait to go fishing.  Between them, they only had one pole and two worms.  Florence's watercolor on cold press, Two Worms, One Pole (11”x14”), was painted in 2001 and tells the whole story.