Per Wikipedia...
Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) is a flowering plant that grows upon larger trees, commonly the Southern Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) or Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) in the southeastern United States fromTexas and Florida north to Southern Arkansas and Virginia.
For me, Spanish moss is so representative of the South. It's hot and humid...sultry summers. This is a photo from a trip to Florida - but it could be Georgia or Louisiana, or Charleston...but it's definitely South. I loved the photo so much I painted it three times. Art is a great way to preserve a vacation memory. For landscapes, keep in mind that photographs with a high or low horizon line translate better into paintings. Think - "how am I going to get into the picture?". The road in the photo above translated into a path gives you the entrance.
"Summer Walkway" 36 x 36 Oil
"Summer Walkway Small" 20 x 20 Oil
"Cool Summer Walkway" 36 x 36 Oil
So take lots of summer vacation photos - and instead of putting them in a photo album, preserve the memory in a painting. Now accepting commissions for Christmas. See these paintings and others at www.fondadoerre.com.
Happy Summer-
Fonda
