Art In Bloom with Helen Dealtry

Helen pulls inspiration from her favorite flower, the rose, as she uses an array of inks and watercolors, as well as a salt technique to create texture along the petals.

Helen paints multiple fruits and vegetables using a variety of watercolors, creating an elaborate still life that pays homage to the end-of-summer's bounty.

With her friend Nicolette, Helen creates three, holiday-inspired wrapping papers using craft paper and house paint. She includes some kid-friendly techniques, including sponge brushes and splatter painting, to encourage the involvement of little helpers.

Helen uses a pre-painted canvas, gouache paints, stencils and a plethora of playful techniques to create a unique painting featuring a variety of dahlias arranged in glass bottles.

Helen works with gouache to paint a landscape inspired by photographs from a recent vacation to Nova Scotia, Canada. She uses varying hues and sweeping strokes to recreate the tide pools and sandy beaches.

Helen showcases a more illustrative technique -- using a dark canvas, two-toned gouache and precise marker pens -- to create a bold pattern of mushrooms inspired by her work in textile design.

Helen takes us to one of her favorite places to find inspiration -- a dear friend's garden. She uses acrylic and pastels to paint an elaborate landscape, capturing its structural, landscaped elements as well as its native areas.

Helen finds inspiration in nature and wildlife for this piece, using charcoal, watercolor and pastel to paint a detailed blue jay perched on a branch with clusters of winter berries.

To showcase an alternative canvas that can be incorporated into home decor, Helen paints a variety of green ferns onto a lampshade using different shades of house paint and paint pens.

Helen welcomes us to her backyard pond for today's inspiration. She uses watercolor to create a beautiful still life painting with her sweet turtle, Mo, as a focal point.