Saturday 20 June 2015

Botanicals #46

forty-sixth painting

back alley weed patch

Ah one of my favourite childhood plants, pineapple chamomile. When I was a kid in Victoria we had a back alley with lots of pineapple chamomile plants. I loved to pick off the yellow heads and crush them between my fingers and smell and smell. I also used them to decorate fairy nests.

A lot of dirt and little white and beige rock chips, pineapple chamomile and a weed with heart shaped seeds and tiny white flowers, this is a tiny world magnified.  I paint delicate with hundreds of strokes and dots creating a confetti fireworks effect that creates a back alley fairy magic feeling.


botanicals #46 June 15, 2015 oil on canvas 9" x 12"








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