16.5 x 8”
Watercolor on Saunders Waterford paper
Sometimes you have to go wild. These sunflowers are a perfect example. During Highfield Hall’s opening for our group show, “Seven by Seven”, I was working from a live setup while people looked on. Things were going well. After a while, though, they began to feel like every sunflower I’d ever painted. What to do? I couldn’t just stop and toss ‘em, then move on to something new. I had to go for something exciting while keeping what I’d already done.
So I asked myself the Ted Nuttall Question: “What is the riskiest thing I could do?”
“Red,” popped into my mind, complete with picture, excitement, energy, and yes, a little fear. I plunged my brush into the cadmium red and painted what I saw in my head. The background just flowed into place. Wild is wonderful.
