Lisa McShane Art

Single White Peony. Oil on Canvas. 10 x 8. This is another beautiful peony from my garden. It's not nearly as fragrant as Duchesse de Nemours, and it produced fewer flowers this year, but I love single flowers. Those are flowers that have but 5 petals. When a rose has 5 petals we often call it a 'wild rose' but they're simply bred to be single. The much more double, and much more fragrant Duchesse is still putting out the flowers and I started a new painting today. That'll be the last peony painting for the year.

Friday night we had a party to celebrate the good people running for local office. I picked peonies for my kitchen. Yesterday I painted one set in a milk bottle. Bonus: my studio smells fantastic. It's a Duchesse de Nemours peony. Last year I had the great good fortune to visit Bologna, Italy with my daughter and was delighted to find the Morandi Museum there. I've always been a fan. I bought a set of postcards and they're pinned to a large bulletin board in my studio. Lined up like that I finally noticed that sometimes his table is beige and his wall gray, in other paintings the wall beige and the table gray. White Peony. Oil on Canvas. 8 x 10.