Last year’s blooms
Posted: March 5, 2021 Filed under: Uncategorized 10 CommentsIt’s definitely not spring in Montreal yet, but this time last year I was teaching my last workshop before the pandemic, in South Carolina, and of course enjoying the spring blooms. In my previous life as a college teacher, I escaped to Georgia and South Carolina during my spring break many times. It wasn’t a break from teaching, because I often taught sketching workshops there, but it was a wonderful escape from the March weather in Montreal. This week I’m a little nostalgic for the balmy air of Savannah, so I painted some azaleas from a previous trip.
Shari Blaukopf's Sketchbook 
We live in Georgia and I can say with confidence, this is a job “well done.”
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This is soooo beautiful.
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beautiful colours of spring
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spring!
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I share in your nostalgia. A March break from the snow and cold was always restorative.
Lovely painting. I particularly like the splashes of rusty orange. They set make he entire piece all the more exciting.
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Wow! So beautiful! Can you share the sequence of what you painted first?
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I love hearing your stories that accompany your lovely painted sketches. I have never been to Georgia or South Carolina. I have a daughter who moved to Tennessee a few years ago. It is a beautiful area. I have tried growing azaleas in my yard with no success. Not sure why they continually die. My hydrangeas, however, flourish!
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Oh, this warms me up on this chilly NY day!!! It really does make it feel almost like spring. We have nothing in bloom that I’ve noticed, although I’m sure if I visited friends who have gardens their hellebores would be in bloom.
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Gee, to look at your azaleas you’d think they are right in front of you.
I had to listen to ” Going to Carolina”, after what you said.
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Good Evening dear friend Shari,
Very beautiful sketch and well done.
Blessings
Uma
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