Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Datura, Summer 2011


The white emerges
Contrast grows to please the eye
Settle on green ground

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Datura, Summer 2011


Datura, the most beautiful flower and the most perfectly white flower I grow.

Saturday, August 13, 2011

August Flowers, 2011


Got to work late today and only spent a couple of hours in the studio. Finished off the right side of the gerbera and added some water drops to all 3 flowers. Tomorrow will clean up the details and finish.

Friday, August 12, 2011

August Flowers, 2011


Another beautiful summer day. The osprey are over head teaching the chick to soar on the thermals. the gold finch have found the sunflowers the chipmunks planted and the tomatoes are coming.
I worked back into the gerbera (left side only) and added some details such as water drops to the zinnia.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

August Flowers, 2011


I removed the smaller gerbera flowers in the middle frame because I felt they distracted from the whole rather than unifying the panels. I also went back into the red zennia. Tomorrow I will refine the yellow gerbera.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

August Flowers, 2011


As I was thinking of ways to unify this composition, I came upon the idea of painting one flower through 3 stages of its life. Next project. Meanwhile, I worked more on the dahlia and carried some elements across the boards.