Thursday, August 16, 2012

It IS Summer


...and so far, I hadn't painted any sunflowers.  Well, in my world you paint sunflowers in Summer--it is just something you do.  I am grateful that my friend Nancy lulled me out of the complacency of forgetting to paint sunflowers and brought me some when she came for dinner a couple of days ago.  This is a note card painting, so it is small, but I kind of like it.  I am not thrilled with how I did the "signature/logo" in the lower right, and will give that a little more thought.  It seems to work with this composition, though.  There were actually five sunflowers, but I focused on my favorite three.  This was kind of fun, and I loved going with a darker value background.  Thanks, Nancy.  I needed to paint those sunflowers!   I'm not limited to just one sunflower painting in the season, but at least I did one.

3 comments:

  1. I think Eileen usually does one each summer too. These are great!

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  2. I was very happy with doing the dark background. As you know, sometimes that is hard to do in watercolor, but I like what I did.

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  3. Lovely sunflowers, Carolyn! and they will last forever, like our friendship.

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