Check out this lovely painting La Maya did yesterday at her mentor’s studio!
She calls it “Roses for Love.”
This is the time of year for roses in southern Arizona. The plants are so overjoyed to have survived another brutal summer, they burst forth in spectacular blooms. For some reason, the rose scent seems to be stronger during the fall than in the springtime. A variety of deep red rose that grows here has a hypnotic perfume.
La Maya has posted a number of new works since she started her own website. The still life has always been her forte, and she has done some very nice landscapes. The ones she’s got online right now picture the Imperial Valley and the high Arizona desert. I wish she still had the one she did when she and La Bethulia were in Spain—they came across an incredible field of lavender with mountains in the background. Somebody bought that piece instantly, and she’s never tried to reproduce it. It was gorgeous.
Recently she’s started to do some portraiture, too. That’s brave. I never have been able to draw or paint an acceptable image of a human being. That takes some talent.
Interesting idea for a Christmas present, eh?
Wow! I think flowers are harder than portraits–at least for me they were.