Botanicals #51

fifty-first painting

back alley iris

I am sitting in front of our parked car on the outside side of the fence and thank goodness I am because the slip and slid is going strong in the yard. My son and his two friends have the hose attached to the long slip and slide and it is spraying water in wide ark and the water guns are out and active too.

The iris was a bud yesterday and today it is open. I paint it as a diagonal ark almost like a shooting star across the night sky. In doing so I accentuate the fleeting and spectacularness of this flower that will only last a day.

botanicals #51 June 20, 2015 oil on canvas 9" x 12"