Mortality is Beautiful

I posted this photo during my post 3 in 5 day challenge that I recently completed. Its two flowers on the wane. Even at that stage just before they die they are beautiful.

Jilted

I love painting the Gerbera daisy. I wish they came in variety packs with regard to color. The last a long time too. The title "Jilted" came to mind because the smaller more decayed flower reminded me of a jilted lover. The surface is an 8 by 8 inch piece of Wallis paper. I started out with a watercolor under painting and used a variety of pastels including Sennelier's iridescent colors. I added some purple highlights to the flowers to give it a bit of a bounce.

Flowers On The Table

I love painting this type of daisy. I think they are called gerbera. I like the shapes they form as they get older. I like painting them just before the petals fall.

Counter Top Portrait 1

I'm focusing a little bit on color play also. I try not to limit my color choices to the local color and I want the background to have a statement too.

Tulip Tangle

I worked on this painting last night. I bought a bunch of tulips last weekend to paint. I did a number of small *art tile* paintings before they began to wilt, This one is watercolor of a recent batch of flowers. Of course 50.00 unframed.

Blue Vase Red Flowers

I have a habit of taking a photo of the flowers that my office mates get from their spouses. Sigmond who is married to Kim sent these flowers to her. I always photographed the flowers that he sent her until she was transferred to another division in the office. He has a good eye and loves his wife. I have painted from this photo many times. The first paintings were in acrylic.

Large Floral Interior (WIP)

I found something that I wanted to clean up after photographing this piece. So one more session and its done.

Flower Interior II

I'm enjoying the florals these days. I started this one last Friday night and finished it up at the gallery that Saturday. Its from the Fort Bragg, California botanical garden. I hope to be there painting next month.

Another Unknown

The raw data.

Flower Interior

Back to pastel for a bit with the florals. This one is yet another flower that I can't identify. Believe it or not I think I took botany in high school or maybe biology II.