
Winter doesn’t want to leave! The wind’s been howling all day. Snowflakes flittered about. The daffodils and crocuses looked rather mournful. But I was happy to stay in a nice, warm studio, figuring out how to paint these begonia leaves. When my friend Lucy first gave (loaned?) me this plant, those leaves made me gasp. Fabulous! Bizarre! My first thought was to do a still life with a pizza. I still might.…