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White Gerber Daisies

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12" x 12" on Oil on Canvas This is a painting I started last year.  I didn't like the first run at it so I decided to work on it again......I have been known to do this to watercolors, but oil can be re-worked too! As you know from my previous post Dick & I are planning a trip to Europe for our 25th Anniversary.  We booked the rsvp last night! Yea! Yea!  We will be going in late September, first to the workshop on Lake Como with Jerry Fresia, an American impressionist who studied with William Schultz, who studied with Robert Brackman who, in turn, studied with Robert Henri, an American who studied in Paris during the 1880's.  He was also a distant cousin of Mary Cassatt, and as you know worked closely with Edgar Degas.  Robert Henri also studied with Ivan Olinsky, who studied with John Singer  Sargent.  Sargent was very close to Claude Monet and James McNeil Whistler.  I plan on studying several artist who studied with Hawthorn who took over for Henri at the C