Big Beautiful Sunflowers!

Cheerful Sunflowers 2 -18x36 panels -commission

Hi Friends!

It was extra sunny at my house for a couple of weeks. I recently delivered these two sunny panels to a friend who asked for yellow and red cheerful sunflowers. I did my best. 

Working on such a big canvas was fantastic and terrifying. These together were the largest paintings I have done and making them work together and as individual paintings was tricky. The scale was also a challenge. The flowers kept growing and growing after the initial underpainting. As you can see below I had to use multiple photo references and that is something that I am still learning to do.  Scary! Somewhere along the line, I fell in love with these two as I prayed over them and their recipients, scrubbed paint on and off, thought I was done until I took one more photo and realized I wasn't. I would put them outside to dry and then added two more highlights... and then I didn't want to say goodbye. But I did. Now its on to the next commission, an exotic night blooming cereus! 

                             

I had to go get a bigger easel to hold them up!