Bleeding Heart by Linda Young

At my Mother's urging, I took a photograph of all the flowers that were blooming in the morning in the front of my home on May 14.  By that evening, we had the worst hail storm you can imagine with an assortment of sizes ranging from marble-sized to the largest being the size of two walnuts held together.  Lots of damage to my home and none of the flowers remained.  I've decided to do some small works to remember them all.  Memorial #1

4-1/8" x 7-1/8"

Watercolor by Linda Young

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BLEEDING HEARTS 100 Paintings in 100 Days 'Inspirations from a Back Yard' Challenge by Claire Beadon Carnell 02/100

'Bleeding Hearts' 02/100

6 x 6 Oil on panel

When we moved from California to Pennsylvania

when I was six years old, this was one of the

first flowers I remember seeing in my grandmother's garden.

Of course I was completely entranced - who could

believe that a flower could actually grow in the

shape of a heart, and be such a beautiful shade of

pink!

As an adult, I have always grown them wherever

I could have a garden and I still get the same

amount of pleasure seeing those little pink hearts

as I did when I was six.

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