• daisy fleabane,
• buttercups,
• blanketflower,
• purple asters,
• scarlet beebalm, and
• cornflowers.
Summer magic!
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Thursday, April 19, 2018
Nosegay
Back at our cottage, bursting with the important news of our wildflower finds, my sisters and I select a vase from the tiny open-shelved kitchen, fill it with water and, with great ceremony and a fair amount of mess, create a nosegay—or tussie mussie, as such an arrangement is also called—of
• daisy fleabane,
• buttercups,
• blanketflower,
• purple asters,
• scarlet beebalm, and
• cornflowers.
Summer magic!
• daisy fleabane,
• buttercups,
• blanketflower,
• purple asters,
• scarlet beebalm, and
• cornflowers.
Summer magic!
8 comments:
Look at that! How this patch brings your eye to those "pear" shapes and back around. Love the sideways placement!
Thanks for the big picture feedback, Carol. Hadn't picked up on that movement between pears and posy. Re sideways placement, I do make some small effort to have all these patches going in varied directions; I want the piece as a whole to be able to be hung in any direction.
I love this patch of more realistic work! You are next to an abstract also a great realistic painter, Dotty!
Beautiful!!!! Love the sweet names of these wildflowers, too.
Thanks, Simone! The fun here for me is (a) that it unfolded from completely abstract and (b) it is still so abstract. The 'stems' are just a random piece of acrylic skin that I had on hand!
Thanks, Jen. I looked up Connecticut wildflower names by color online to see what I could find that might approximate my random splashes of color here. I have no idea if any of those might be true to what we found on our walk.
LOVE this :) Loose, abstract, fun, :) And those pears! When did I miss the pears? Or, did I see them and have forgotten. Going back to see....
Thanks for sharing the fun of this piece—I do enjoy finding something a little identifiable in a completely abstract start and especially enjoy when a piece comes together very intuitively and with flow, as this one did. Take a bite of one of those juicy pears when you go back!
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