The Fig Branch Watercolor Painting
After I made the Fig Branch stained glass panel, I painted the same branch again in watercolor.
It comes from a fig tree in a greenhouse on a farm just outside Carbondale, Colorado, where I ate my first fresh fig. In glass, the light through that greenhouse turned into a bright yellow background. In watercolor it gets softer, and the edges of the leaves and fruit are allowed to blur.
The panel was one of a kind and went home with a collector. Painting it meant more people could have the branch too. The original watercolor is still with me, and it is available as a framed art print.
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