#279 & #280 Daffodils & Purple Droopy Flowers 2/1/2020 & 2/2/2020

I've been a terrible daily-painter this month.  I thought last month was bad....but here it is 2/18 and I'm just now talking about my last two paintings - that occurred over 2 weeks ago!  Miserable, terrible painting promises!!!  Life at work got in the way, not my fault, not my fault!  Well, really I could have done better, I was simply a couch potato, mentally spent.  Excuses, excuses.

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.

9x3 inches

5x5 inches

Both of these started with a red canvas, can you tell???