Ranunculus #122

This truly is my favorite flower... I can't really explain why... Peony runs a close second...

Soft ranunculus Painting # 14

     This painting has my 'big 3' favorites in it.  It has hot pink, which I love, ranunculus, and polka-dots too...  Yes, I actually DO have this many polka dotted fabrics to put in these paintings.  You see, I love to make baby quilts, too, and have all sorts of wonderful fabrics for backgrounds, so there will be more to come, I'm sure. !

Ranunculus. Painting #10

 

 These have been my favorite flower since I fell in love with them at a 'Home Show" many years ago.  It's the first time I remember seeing them, and I just thought they were beautiful.   Apparently they don't grow in my part of the country, because I try, in vain to get them to grow EVERY year !  (You'd think I finally learn, and just buy the cut flowers for my table ! Ha !)

Day Two Hundred Twelve

'Ranuculus, too'

6 x 8 oil on panel
85.00 + 6.00 s + h

I'm getting better at making artistic decisions, I think.... This background was more well defined, and I noticed it was detracting from the main focus, which was the flower... I came back into the room, after noticing this and smudged the entire background... result? much more continuity of composition. The background wasn't competing for attention ! Now if that were just as easy to do in life's situations... HA !

Day Two Hundred Ten

'My Favorite'

6 x 6 oil on panel
75.00 + 6.00 s + h

Ranuculus are so cool... they remind me of roses, only more humble...

Day Two Hundred Nine

'Ranuculus'

6 x 6 oil on panel
75.00 + 6.00 s + h

I remember seeing these for the first time at the home and garden show in St. Louis, years ago. Pots of these were lining the displays of garden equipment and outdoor furniture. I had never seen anything so beautiful... They became my favorite flower, and I proceeded to research them, and I would buy pots of them every spring hoping to 'make them my own'. But, alas, it was not to be, and I finally figured out that they will not survive in our 'zone' on the map... I still love them... but, BOY I found them hard to paint !!