Marigold, 5x7" Oil on canvas SOLD
Finally, dry enough to scan and post! I took the reference photo, and for the first time ever, I saw the most interesting aspects to this very common flower. I painted it as I saw it ... and I hope you can see it too - many of the petals actually have small hair-like appendages on the tips. I probably wouldn't have seen that with my own eyes - but the camera did, and I thought that was a wonderful little surprise! Of course, my painting of it didn't capture it as well as the camera did.
To me - this little painting is a celebration of yellows and rust colors - of sunlight and shadow - and of those little hair like things on the tips of leaves that I never knew were there before! Makes me think and wonder - what other surprises await our closer investigation of common things! I'm pretty sure that God, the creator of all things, must enjoy our enjoyment of " little surprises"!
3 comments:
Helen, this is a cheerful looking little flower. It is amazing to discover little surprises in nature, and I'm sure you're right....God must enjoy surprising us.
Helen, thanks for sharing your work with us. I also appreciate your faith statement. Blessings to you.
Helen, I am always amaze with your art work, and how you did it. Thanks for sharing, Anna :)
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