“681. Cloudy Day at Mendocino Headlands” Watercolor painting by Mariko Irie

It was early spring.

We didn’t get much rain in the last winter. But in spring we had nice rainy days.

Yes, we didn’t get much rain, so I missed rainy days.

It’s cloudy day, birds were playing over the ocean.

Isn’t it nostalgic?

Now a day is much longer. I love it.

The last time I was in Mendocino Coast, I enjoyed beautiful sunset again.

“695. Evening Mendocino Headlands” Oil painting by Mariko Irie

This scene is just after the sun went down. So still a little bit pink left on the horizon.

I guess a lot of people went through the entrance to the Mendocino Headlands on that day as well.

This location is cross Main Street from Gallery bookshop in Mendocino Village.

“694. Sunset at Jug Handle Beach” Oil painting by Mariko Irie

I painted this scene several paintings. But every time the shape of river is different, lighting is different and my feeling is different.

I understand completely that Monet painted several paintings of the Poplars.

This location is Jug Handle Beach, CA from the bridge Highway 1.

Enjoy peaceful sunset time.

Happy Mother’s Day!

“679. Gorgeous End of the Day” Oil painting by Mariko Irie

When I was leaving Mendocino Coast, passing by South of the Mendocino Village, I saw this scene. It was very strong energy. It was marvelous, gorgeous and fantastic.

That was the end of that day. I felt that tomorrow is promised.

“689. Mitsy’s Rose III” Watercolor painting by Mariko Irie

This is the third day of “Mity’s Rose”.

Look at this! It was full bloom. All petals were opened nicely.

It looks asking “Am I pretty?”

What you think?

“688. Mitsy’s Rose II” Watercolor painting by Mariko Irie

This is the second day of Mitsy’s rose.

I can see more color. So this one is more colorful than “Mitsy’s rose I” and it looks like dancing.

Happy dancer, don’t you think so?

“687. Mitsy’s Rose I” Watercolor painting by Mariko Irie

This rose came from my friend’s garden. My friend’s name is Mitsy. We met at Ping-Pong room at the Finley Community Center. It was my first time to play Ping-Pong there in the last November. Since then we are friend. She is a Japanese. So we can speak Japanese each other. We have been in this country over thirty years, even I go to visit Japan once a year, our Japanese is little rusty. So in our conversation we ask each other “What was the word in Japanese?” It’s funny, isn’t it?

This rose is so colorful. It’s white and pinkish red trim. But white part gets a lot of color by light. I put this rose against north window and painted.

This is the first day of this rose.

“Hello Rosy” This rose is a happy chatterbox, don’t you think?

“691. Hot Cocoa II” Watercolor painting by Mariko Irie

This is a same flower as “Hot Cocoa I”.

Roses from store, they open so fast.

But this rose opened slowly so I really could enjoy and taking time to paint a picture.

What do you think about this rose?

My friends told me that this year is rose’s year again.   My friend gave me a rose named “Hot Cocoa” from her garden.

“690. Hot Cocoa I” Watercolor painting by Mariko Irie

When I saw this rose, right a way I wanted to paint a picture of this rose.

Color of any thing changes by light.

This rose: In the morning the color is more bluish. Around noon the color changes to pinkish. And late afternoon the color gets more orange.

It has nice fragrance as well.

Now the flower’s shape is not nice any more, so I took a paddle off, what a supplies. The front of paddle color is light dusty rose, but a base of pedal is very bright yellow trim with very bright reddish orange. The hidden place has so much bright color.

The back of paddle is reddish orange.

I enjoyed painting this rose as seeing the color changes as well.

Daffodil season is over here, Santa Rosa.

Ground is covered with fresh green, many kinds of flowers are blooming.

Daffodils are special for me.

After gloomy cold winter, yellow daffodils light our yard.

The patch of daffodils seemed reflect the sun. They were glowing at sunset.

“680. Daffodils by the Ocean” Watercolor painting by Mariko Irie

I’d like to say “Thank you for Today, and looking forward for tomorrow.”