Botanicals # 3

It is a windy day and the fragile flower on it's thin stock shutters and bends. It wavers back and forth settling on different poses. 

I paint the various poses the flower takes. I smear and make multiple lines as indicators of motion. There is bright sun and I record the white highlights in the foreground, more stationary, plant. The peachy brown colour of the background is derived from the highlights of the dead leaves and I paint it flat to mimic botanical prints where context, background is absent.

Botanicals # 3 oil on canvas May 3, 2015