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Project#5 Purple Sun, Purple Flowers w/Purple Pansies, Yellow Pansies & Black Hollyhocks

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This is the first piece I am considering completed of sorts. I again set out to accomplish the vision I had of mixing yellow’s and blue’s and seeing what I could do with it, only to put the Black Hollyhock into play and changing the scope of the piece.

Most of the painting is done with the purple and yellow Pansies to create the blue atmosphere, there is a strip of Black Lily along the bottom and then the sun and flowers were done with Black Hollyhock.

In the end I think there are some really cool aspects to it and I am starting to learn more of what certain flowers are going to do, plus I think it shows the potential of the medium to do more than abstract hues and tones.

However, my thumbs were thoroughly sore afterwards.

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The hazy butterfly shape is from a Yellow Marigold, I plucked from the parking lot of Best Buy in Coeur D’alene, my son shook his head when I stopped and opened the car door, reached out, grabbed it and drove away. I don’t have a problem…just a passion.

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3rd Attempt – with Black Lily

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This was the third piece I did. I primarily used the Black Lilly leaves here as well as the yellow from the Anthers.

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The coolest part of this piece was some of the shapes that happened accidentally, I added plenty of things on purpose, but a combination of swirls and a speck of debris left behind from the petals, gave what I see as part of a wolves face as well as part of a females face behind it. Check it out and let me know what you see.

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A different view of the same section.

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This part here was a close up of some of the swirls from the bottom left corner.

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All in all it wasn’t the look I was going for when I started but it was a great learning experience as to how the Black Lily behaved and some of the effects that could be created with it.

2nd attempt- Starry Night with Black Lily

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Though the black Hollyhock did cast the original demo piece in to chaos, it did inspire me to try something else. Though I didn’t actually end up using the Hollyhock on the next painting. This one is made entirely from the petals of a black Stargazer Lily and the yellow, the best yellow I have found thus far, from the pollen covering its anthers. Sadly, the ones in our yard have finished blooming for the year and taken their golden yellow with them.

The pollen carrier is pretty small, about the size of a large rice kernel, but produces a strong vibrant yellow and is great for going over other colors as it does not wash them away in its application.

I set out with a pretty direct idea on this one, something I don’t normally do. Here is the full image, followed by a couple of close ups.

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