Covid-19 | Brenda Behr

• Covid #18: Lay, Lily, Lay

  Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". So, it’s not the correct title for Bob Dylan’s 1969 hit song. One of my fav songs of that era. The song eventually, inspired me to own a brass bed. I got the title for this painting because n…

• Covid #17: Currently In the Pink

  Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 5". How long will we remain healthy? How long will we remain quarantined? I am feeling fine; I just feel tired tonight. Tired happens when I skip a day of painting. Taxes and loan applications pu…

• Covid #16: Earth Day Lily

  Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 5". Even before my feet had hit the floor this morning, a Facebook friend alerted me that it is Earth Day. How did I not know this? Considering I don’t know what any day is, this is not too surpr…

• Covid #15: Bag Time

  Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". A friend on Facebook asked how I decide my daily subjects. Following was my response: “I try to paint them as close to actual size as possible, thus making them all the more realistic. Also,…

• Covid #14: Read My Soup

  Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 5". I was moving along just fine this morning. I’d had my coffee and my Krispy Kreme fix, did this watercolor, and had fed the cats. Then I got an email from my bank saying there had been documen…

• Covid #13: Purple Rings

  Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". A slice of purple onion is part of my diet everyday, usually a noontime meal. An English muffin, toasted and buttered, topped with a thin slice of purple onion, topped by a sliced medium-hard…

• Covid #12: Repurposed Shoe

  Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". Painting the orchid is my way of apologizing to the orchid bloom for bumping his mother plant into something and knocking her off. I also like to say to my flower subjects, “Your existence wa…

• Covid #11: Going Bananas

  Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 5". Selling this little watercolor helped restore me to sanity. Well, just a little bit. It’s actually painting everyday that keeps me sane. The actual banana plays only one significant part in m…

• Covid #10: Don’t you speak back to me.

  Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 5". I paint the things that speak to me. This is a pansy, that in this vase, had real attitude, and for that reason, it spoke to me. Little would i have believed it would try and put an end to a…

• Covid #9: Barbarasnap

  Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". I struggled with a name for this one. Should I name it Ginger Quake, another form of possible mass tragedy, or, Gingersnapped, after my current state of mind, or just plain Gingersnap. Then I…

• Covid #8: Sprig

  Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". Back to the wonderful flowers in the bouquet dropped off by darling Henry, grandson of a friend. Although I am fairly certain these are a bluebell variety, I have named the painting Sprig jus…

• Covid #7: Easter Chick

  Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". Couldn’t resist the opportunity to paint this year’s Krispy Kreme chick mini doughnut. I have painted many Krispy Kreme novelty doughnuts, but have found nothing tastes better, nor does any p…

• Covid #6: Literacy Connection Easter Lily

  Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". In recognition of Easter, I have shuffled my Covid paintings around a bit in order to better commemorate the holiday. Always a challenge to paint white in watercolor, the most successful way…

• Covid #5: Easter Treat

  Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 5". When a friend stopped by with a 4-pack of toilet paper and disinfectant wipes, I had no idea why I was receiving a bag of candy. Then I found the chocolate eggs. The KitKats were the last to…

• Covid #4: Open Wide and Say Ahh

  Watercolor, Paper, 7" x 5". You know you’re isolated when your tulip sticks its tongue out at you.

• Covid #3: Mood Elevator

  Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". Covid#3: Mood Elevator as subject matter came from the suggestion of a friend who knows how much I love Krispy Kreme. My friend is a super talented photographer who knows we capture best what…

• Covid #2: Going Crackers

  Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". Covid #2: Going Crackers Paintings like these keep me from going crackers. Crackers like these came with the chicken rice soup given to me by a good neightbor.

• Covid #1: Strawberry

  Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". Strawberry is the first in a series of small watercolors painted from life of various objects that find themselves with me as I paint in isolation during our Stay at Home Order in North Carol…

• Covid-19

  Watercolor, Paper, 5" x 7". The idea for a series of Covid-19 still life watercolors came only after I had painted three or so of them. I believe Stay-at-Home orders have brought out the best in people. Sure, we get cra…