SPRING COLLECTION

8x8, oil, $100.00

This feels festive.  Like when Spring starts to show it lovely face and everyone is out and about.

"ALWAYS CUT THE STEMS"

8x6, oil on canvas panel, sold

I bought these sunflowers to paint and they immediately started drooping as I meantioned in my last posting of "Cut Flowers". I realized that I brought them home through them in water to paint and did not cut the stems. So this time I cut the stems quite a bit to see if I could bring them back and sure enough it did.

 

"CUT FLOWERS"

8x8, oil on stretched canvas, $100.00 + $12.00 S/H

Cut these lovely sunflowers today to brighten up the house.  I was amazed at how fast they were drooping and thought if I had any inkling to paint them I best get right on it.  They look very cheerful and I hope they last a few days.  Flowers, like vegetables and fruit, are a bit of a gamble.  You just don't know how long they will last.

Florals on Display!

Sunflowers On Black 16x20 oil SOLD

I bought more sunflowers. This was one of those times that I got to take what I learned by doing the same thing again... but different.

Sunflower Quartet 12x12 oil SOLD

Last week I painted a painting of a sunflower in a vase from a photo and well I have to tell you it was not good. I post almost everything and this did not make it. In all of that, I thought about how much info is lost in a photo. After much evaluation and effort to save it I realized I was working with an awful photo and I was trying to work big. Just not enough info to pull off anything.

So I went to the store and bought sunflowers to put in vases around the house with hopes of painting. I must tell you I do this often with complete optimism and watch the flowers die and the water turn smelly and murky and no painting to be seen. This time I just made myself do it and I loved it. I can pull off a sunflower and 4 to boot.

It is all shapes. How many times have I said that and suppressed it like an evil thought. I didn't try to paint every petal and well it hangs together and like I said it is shapes, shapes of color butting up to one another. Anyway I am happy. Nothing like working from life.