Bit by bit, the snow is almost gone, as each day grows warmer and warmer. I had most of the colors mixed for a large study of sunflowers from last week, only to find the stems turning black before I could put paint to canvas. I wasn’t able to replace the bouquet right away, but I did find some nice marguerite daisies. I took a break from sunflowers, and on Saturday I finished a small study of daisies in a milky white glass vase. Many years ago I finished several studies of marguerite daisies, and a stylized shorthand for individual petals always served well enough to resolve those details. For the first time I decided to attempt to capture all of the randomness of odd spacing and odd shapes. Someone once told me the more you focus on something, the bigger it becomes, so I decided to focus and fixate on edges and negative spaces, with mixed results. I should have an image of this piece to post in the next day or two.

Over the weekend I was able to replace the sunflowers with a fresh bouquet, and picked up where I left off before the diversion of the daisies. After three days of slinging paint, I have a massive and rich surface, and colors rolling from brightest yellow to dark red in an attempt to get the flowers to cup and turn and tilt. Tomorrow should see this piece all but finished.

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