Seasons & Life Embrace the current season of your life. ~ Gabrielle Blair Painting together with my dear friend is a profound joy in my life. We have weathered many seasons together, and without her I would be lost. Since we are now states apart from one another, we have discovered painting together in our own studios while chatting on the phone about our process and delighting in our final product reveals via text photos. Our most recent collaboration, at the suggestion of my friend, was painting the seasons of trees following an instructional watercolor video by Paul Clark. This seemed a particularly timely topic since the most recent ice storm which claimed the lives of many trees in my corner of Oregon. This is my homage to those trees lost, those that stood strong through their icy blanket , and the enduring friendship with which I am blessed. Note: Painting trees has always been my nemesis and inhibited my ability to produce satisfactory landscapes. (I think that is par...