ROSES BY THE FENCE oil on board, 6x6

Ok, here's today's plein air painting. I'm still not very happy with it. For some reason, I just can't make it look like I want it to. Actually, it looks like the subject, but that's not how I wanted to paint it. The brush seems to have a mind of it's own...

GRANDMOTHER'S ROSES
oil on canvas, appr 4"x6"

This is a plein air painting. The weather is beautiful again, so I painted in my back yard with my umbrella shading me. The little pink roses are on a climbing rose bush my dad gave me. He says they were growing in his yard when he was a boy.