My Mother's Poppies
14 x 21 Watercolor
140# Arches CP WC Paper
This painting was born from a small work I had completed last May (see 2010 blog spot) when the hail storm hit our area of town. My intentions were always to create a larger painting from it and after many hours struggling to fill in the spaces below the poppies and throughout the painting; I've gone as far as I want to go. I wrestled with cropping it but removing the weight at the bottom made it feel too much like it was floating and not "grounded".
Mother's poppies were growing until someone got the weed trimmer too close to the plant and the poppies met their demise. They never returned but I was fortunate to take a picture of them before the "deed" was done. Painted here in watercolor is the celebration of my mother's poppies for flower lovers everywhere.
7 comments:
and I love poppies!
these are very realistic..they look just like mine tried to look even as they were being drowned by the monsoons....
Positively glorious, Linda!
Beautiful Linda!
Bertie, I'm glad we have some sunshine now to dry the ground out and let their little petals stand upright. Thank you for your comments.
Claire and Deb, thank you.
The transition from the "ground" to the sky is a success.
I just love your poppies, Linda. Great job!!
Patricia, thank you for saying that; it was my biggest concern on this piece. Thank you!
Charlotte, thank you very much.
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