Four more tiny magnetized canvases were prepped last week: flowers. I haven't had much success getting flowers to look right, so I'm not sure why I decided to do 4 of them. I had good photos....summer has brought rain and lots of healthy and hearty flowers. The black-eyed susans are from the patch that surrounds my mailbox, the purple coneflowers are from the mean-spirited neighbor's yard, the nasturtium is from the outside of a Mexican restaurant I had lunch at a week ago, and the petunias are from a pot on my front porch. I would just like to say, that the mean-spirited neighbor does a lovely job with her yard - it is a haven for bees and butterflies. She just hates on anyone who veers off the sidewalk and into her grassy lawn. When my boys were young, they and their friends would dare each other to run through her yard. Even a dart in a few feet and back out earned a commendation of bravery. So, when I was photographing the black-eyed susans at my mailbox, I looked up and saw the coneflowers beckoning. I reasoned that I would be standing in Doris's yard to photograph the flowers at the fenceline...and Doris wouldn't mind me tramping through her side yard for the brief bit to take some pictures. Yes, I was too lilly-livered to step foot in the mean-spirited neighbor's yard.
The flowers went easier than I anticipated. I actually started them yesterday, when I had dark brown on the brush, I filled in the spots that would need dark brown on these 4 little canvases. They dried just enough overnight that the brown didn't smear everywhere when I painted over parts of it (brown dries the quickest I have found). The trick to the flower project here was to get the flower itself right, but wing the leafy parts. With the exception of the nasturtium....those leaves (I find) are more interesting than the flowers, so I was careful with those. I think these will be sold as a set of 4, they don't look as good singly as they do as a group.
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