Autumn iris

Here’s a little 8x8 on canvas of one of my garden iris... I love flowers, and love painting them, too.

Iris variety #101

     These flowers have a very unusual arrangement of petals... they look awkward, but that's the way they grow....  I googled iris to see what variety they are and found there are hundreds of different ones !  I was really only familiar with the hybrid ones I've grown and the Siberian and Japanese ones.... who knew?

Day Two Hundred Thirty Six

'Frontyard Iris'

8 x 8 oil on panel
95.00 + 6.00 s + h

This is the last of my iris... I only have a handful of them, from the previous owner. The times I've planted them they Never came up. I discovered that I had planted them too deep, which is often the problem people have with them. It's hard to keep them in place when you just literally place them practically on top of the soil. They tend to fall over, and not stay-put ! Does anyone have any good suggestions for this?
By the way, these babies are really hard to paint ! ha !