Three Mini Sunflowers

It's almost the first day of Spring, so I thought I would paint sunflowers.

Okay, so I'm getting ahead of myself. Sunflowers aren't available locally until summer and it was snowing outside as I was painting this. It doesn't matter though because the weather changes quickly and these will eventually be available at the farmers market.

If you watch the video, you'll see that I began the painting by toning the canvas with Quinacridone Magenta and Ultramarine Blue. A little bit of that color shows through in the final painting.

The original painting is for sale. Prints are also available, you can view various prints by clicking the button below.

Mini Sunflowers

These sunflowers lasted a long time. I don't know if it was the plant food that I added to the water or the sunlight from my kitchen window that helped them to survive, but I got to enjoy them for over a week. 

This painting is still available, click to view the auction. This painting is the companion piece to my previous sunflower painting that I completed a few weeks ago.



I rarely paint images that are similar to each other but I had more than one reference photograph of these sunflowers. I enjoyed painting them the first time around and I thought it would be fun to paint them again.