Romantic Botanicals #29

I am not Your Fallback Guy

Today is my son's pool party. I start painting at 7:30 am so I can be done before the party. Ack - another long painting. Ack - I am in the hut and don't stand back enough, so up close it looks amazing but from 4 ft away it is washed out. At the end I stand up and need to rework.

This painting is full and has lovely scratchy details. The hundreds of flowers have long stamen which translate into a lacy edges. There are so many choices for the pollinators and I make the image to represent that. Your eyes have a hard time choosing where to settle.

romantic botanicals #29, I am not Your Fallback Guy,  May 28,  2016 oil on canvas 9" x 12"

see it looks different up close