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This gorgeous Cafe au Lait Dahlia has found her forever home in a beautiful, newly renovated kitchen/living are of a friend's home!

She was my first large-scale floral done on hot-press watercolor paper with a signature border. I completed her in 2024 and displayed her minus any mat or frame a few times, but she was so shy she just couldn't shine the way she was meant to.

So I had my framer build a custom frame to hold her. We cut a compatible tan mat and plexiglass, and he built a solid-wood frame and stained it with a warm oak stain. Perfect!Once she was in that frame, ooh la la! And that meant she could now hang in a gallery show, which she did, in last Summer's Spring into Summer show at the Asla Art Gallery in downtown Kalama! 

That's when the buyer saw her and knew, she had to have her for her soon-to-be remodeled kitchen/dining area. I'm so glad because she needed a good home where she could be loved and admired!

If you are wondering where my inspiration came from, my friend Jana of Bonny Blooms generously gave me permission to re-interpret her as an artwork. Bonny Blooms grows the most magnificent Dahlias I have ever seen. The Garden Shop is now in Castle Rock but was formerly at the Mountain Timber Market in Kalama where I met Jana. I've never known a more passionate planty lady than Jana! If you are ever in Castle Rock (just up the road from Kalama), be sure to stop by!

In the future you may see more of the magnificent Cafe au Lait Dahlia, but patience is required! That particular bloom takes a lot of brushstrokes. 

Thanks for reading all about my Cafe au Lait Dahlia!