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These fist-size blossoms bring a vast amount of color to our smaller patio area. My granddaughter helped choose the plants and planted these African Marigolds with bright pink and orange impatiens beside two planters of colorful snapdragons. Even on a cloudy day, the bright colors of the flowers shine.
I challenged myself first to draw the flowers and then to paint them, so the shadows, frills, and colors were lifelike.

Bonnie Young connects to rural life and landscape because they reflect her roots. She discovered the love of painting the light and shadows and their effects on her subjects as she studied nature. For her, painting is an artistic articulation of life captured in watercolor or digital creations. Watercolor allows her to build depth and detail through layering glazes. While still attending elementary school in a one room schoolhouse in the Nebraska Sandhills, she began painting. For most of her adult life, she lived in the midwest and west. She studied art at Kansas State University, the Canton Museum of Art in Canton, Ohio, and the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Colorado. In Colorado, she studied under Janet Nunn, an award...