Sunflower: Flower of the Week, Another Work in Progress

FLOWER OF THE WEEK


Sunflower (Giant Grey Stripe)

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This past spring, I decided to start a garden on my balcony of my two bedroom apartment. I grew from seed this beautiful 5' sunflower. Apparently sunflowers are not hard to grow.

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Reference 1


Reference 2

I was very excited when this sunflower final bloomed. It makes me want to go Van Gogh crazy. Instead of picking between these 2 references, I think I might paint both of them.

Manhattan Arts International Listing, EBSQArt Competition & Sunset Paintings

I am now listed in the directory of artists on Manhattan Arts International Web Site. You can view my work and the work of the other amazing artists at this link

I have recently entered a piece into EBSQArt's Competition entitled "Reinterpreting Children's Art".

The purpose of the competition is to do a recreate a child’s work of art and do it in the manner that you would create a piece of art now, not as if you were a child yourself. When I was about 11 or 12, I used to paint on gift boxes. I recently recreated the acrylic painting "Sunset Kid" which was created on a gift box with Oil Pastel on Paper, entitled "Sunset 2009".


"Sunset Kid",
Acrylic on Gift Box


"Sunset 2009",
Oil Pastel On Paper

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