Romantic Botanicals #57

Peony and the Last Frontier

The peonies are weighted down with water from the morning thunderstorm. The ants don't come until half way through my painting secession. The stems must have been too slippery.

I have this space theme going with the peonies. Their weighty pointy balls of petals seem suspended in air and rocket out from the main bush. So I paint like it is a dark night sky and these are space stations almost touching. I put a warm blue between them and a cool blue around them thinking this will emotional draw the two together.

romantic botanicals #57  Peony and the Last Frontier,  June 25,  2016 oil on canvas 9" x 12"shady, 3h