Tulips Two Ways - Mixed With Garden Greens, and a Cartoon Take....

The holidays are so over, and we're on to spring...on this dining room table, anyway, set for a famly dinner. Not a bit of sparkle, glitz or winter.... It's all creamy colors with a mix of textures, and a few orange tulips from the grocery store fluffed up with garden greens.

I love echoing in the vase what is happening just outside the windows; Camellia sasanqua, twigs of of coral bark maple and the shiny, gold-trimmed leaves of Daphne odora 'Marginata' both indoors and out.

Tulips are so inexpensive right now (3 bunches of five for $10 at Metropolitan Market) and surprisingly versatile. I can never get over how such a familiar, simply-shaped flower can look so very different depending on vase and companions...They can look classic, country, and yet can also go graphic and modern.

For a very cool art show at Museo Gallery in Langley this month, I used the same orange tulips singly in a mini-collection of black-and-white vases....I missed the opening of the "Komikon" show because I lost a week to flu...but took flowers in late, anyway, because this lively and original show runs through February 25.

There's so much motion in the curvy stems and leaves of the tulips, such drama in the slow opening of the flowers, that they work even one-to-a-vase...especially with these slim, matte vases that look made to hold tulips...

The encaustic painting behind the tulips is by Whidbey Island artist David Price; you can see more of David's work here, and at Museo Gallery....

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poster by Debbie Loudon for Museo's show, which runs through February 25th...

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[Debbie Loudon]

I saw your tulips in Museo today. Love 'em!