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8/28/2011 9:24:57 PM

Midnight sunflowers

Linda Young / Comment on this

While the rains came down from Hurricane Irene, there was only one thing left to do while the lights remained on...paint. Before me, sat a wilting bouquet of sunflowers that needed some attention! What started out to be a painting of a sunlit sunflower in a field of them became a sunflower field at midnight. In the background is the barn that stands in the corner of the field and the mountains that line the evening sky.

Although scanning this little painting came out a lot lighter than the actual painting because of my use of cerulean blue. Cerulean blue appears as "light" on the paper, which is what I wanted; but I wish it didn't light up so much in the reproduction of it. The scanner light didn't do any justice to the painting.

I can only imagine what a field of sunflowers looks like at midnight under a moonlit sky. They are probably more blue-toned than I have made them in this one; but what the heck...maybe one day, I will try a plein air painting at the stroke of midnight under a harvest moon. I'll use my sunflowers as models that are growing in my garden...

I'll just need a little bug spray and a tiny flashlight just to be able to "see" what I'm painting.