Painting Signs and Planters for the Garden

I love it when the weather is nice and I can paint in the garden while painting things for the garden. It inspires me to see the butterflies and the birds fly around while the birds sing and the butterflies bounce back and forth landing on various plants and flowers.The suet seems to be the favorite of the woodpeckers while the chickadees go for the thistle seed. 

As I did this little sign to explain all of the milkweed to the neighbors. I attempted to paint the variety of butterflies that we've been raising and releasing all summer. They're called "Painted Ladies" and I thought that was really appropriate to express what we're trying to do here.

It's hard to see in these photos but the reverse of the sign says "Milkweed for the butterflies"

This little planter stand is seen laying on it's side as I paint it. I'm laying in the basic shapes for the leaves and stems now and will add rosebuds when I go back out to work on it.

While I worked on my projects my husband installed the lattice panels on this garden bench for a bit more privacy in this corner of the garden. 

Adding flowers to a painted birdhouse

Windmill with painted roses

I'm starting with the base which is designed to go with the new garden sculpture. The blades will be painted to showcase my favorite subjects and types of painting styles.

What I'm doing here is painting roses over the welds so that there weren't a lot of round, awkward areas showing.

3 color,2 brushstoke small outdoor table

I came up with a design for this table that incorporates all the colors of my other lawn furniture to "tie it all together".

This couldn't be easier. It only takes 3 colors and 2 different brush strokes.(dots and commas)

Finishing touches on the fairy garden and where I put it