So while Christmas shopping last December at Tuesday Morning, I came across a "coffee table book" - full of giant photos of beautiful flowers. I gifted it to myself, so that I could use those photos for fodder for future paintings. The daffodils were my first try at one of those pages. I let the petals fall over the edges of the (wrapped) canvas. It went down as I intended and I was happy. The next day, it looked "off". There was a petal missing in the topmost flower. So I painted it in and I was happy. The next day it looked "off" again. The second stem was missing. So I painted it in and I was happy.
The next flower picture I altered quite a bit. The bell-shaped flowers had a checkerboard pattern of color on them. My first attempt at that checkerboard was awful. I decided to make it a solid color. It then lacked some pizzazz. So I made another attempt at the checkerboard. Still awful. Painted over that again, and what you see here is the fourth and final flower color: purple.
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| 9x3 inches |
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| 5x5 inches |
Both of these started with a red canvas, can you tell???
