Dirt By Amy Stewart

See You in Baltimore, CT, and NY

It's spring and I'm back on tour for the paperback of Flower Confidential.  If you're in Baltimore, CT, or NY, I hope you'll stop by and say hey.

Friday, April 4 12-1
Discussion & Booksigning
Walters Art Museum Art in Bloom
Baltimore, MD

Tuesday, April 15, 7 pm
Discussion & Booksigning
RJ Julia Booksellers
Madison, CT

Wednesday, April 16, 7 pm
Discussion & Booksigning
Horticultural Society of New York
New York, NY

Thursday, April 17, 7:30 p.m.
Discussion & Booksigning
EARTH NIGHT, Flowers and Food for Thought
Rye High School Performing Arts Center
Milton Road
Rye, NY

'Apple Trio'

8 x 10 oil on gessoed art board. Click here to bid.  Go here to see all eBay auctions.

I don't know what it is about apples.  They are fun to paint, and I can get totally absorbed in trying to get those splotches of gold and red just right.

I think I might do a whole series of these apples, but they won't be up for a while.  I'm off to the East Coast soon for some book tour events, and I'm sure that when I'll get back I'll have lots of Manhattan scenes I'll want to paint.

'Mr. & Mrs. Salt and Pepper Go to Fort Lauderdale'

8 x 10 inch oil on gessoed art board. Click here to bid. Go here to see all eBay auctions.

This is kind of a strange, silly little painting, but I'm putting it up here anyway.  I was in Fort Lauderdale by myself earlier this year, and I sat at a sidewalk cafe, looking at the beach, with only this salt and pepper shaker and a rum punch to keep me company. After a while, perhaps under the influence of the rum punch, it started to seem as if the salt and pepper shaker were on vacation at the beach and I was kind of a third wheel.

So I told them to get up next to each other and smile, and I took their picture, and then I went home.

'Refrigerator Dishes'--SOLD

SOLD.  8 x 10 inch oil on gessoed art board. Click here to bid.  Go here to see all eBay auctions.

I love these old Pyrex dishes.  They're the only thing we use in our fridge.  No Rubbermaid for us.  I thought it would be really fun and easy to paint these three primary colors, but it was surprisingly tricky to get them just right.

'Oranges and Lemons'--SOLD

8 x 10 inch oil on gessoed art board. Click here to bid.  Click here to see all eBay auctions.

Oranges and Lemons:  also the name of an XTC album I listened to constantly in college.

This fruit bowl was sitting on a friend's counter, just perfectly composed.  Took a rather poor photo with my phone, but it was enough for this painting.  I guess that's the trick: seeing paintings wherever you go, and getting just enough information down to let you reproduce it in the studio. 

'Bookshelf'--SOLD

SOLD.  8 x 10 inch oil on gessoed art board.  Click here to bid.

I thought this would be my last painting of books for a while, but just today I started photographing a stack of books on the table in my office, so I may be back at it.

I've been fussing over several paintings the last few weeks--I've finally decided to stop fussing and put them online.  Paintings are like books--they're never really finished.  You just reach a point when you decide to stop messing with them.  This one's very loose, but in a way that appeals to me.

See you at the Garden Shows!

This month, I'm in Boston and San Francisco.  If you're going to the shows, stop by and say hi.  In Boston, I'm also leading a tour of the show gardens at 9 am on Saturday.  Apparently my role is simply to provide witty commentary.  I'm much more witty at 5 pm with a glass of Champagne in my hand, but we'll see what I can manage at 9 am with a double nonfat latte.

Saturday, March 8, 1:30
Discussion & Booksigning
New England Spring Flower Show
Boston, MA

Wednesday, March 12, 12:00
Booksigning at Mrs. Dalloway's booth
San Francisco Garden Show
San Francisco, CA

Why Shop at Your Local Florist?

Check out my article about local florists on the Flower Shop Network's website. And by the way, their website makes it pretty easy to find an actual florist to order from--here, for example, is what I get when I search for florists in Santa Cruz, CA.