Just to give you a little background on why I selected this subject, I'll tell you the story behind this painting. One morning I opened my garage door and across the lane peeking through the fence was this nice bunch of petunia flowers. I thought gee, this would make a nice subject for a painting and planned to take a few photos of it later and paint from that. By the time I got around to taking some pictures it was a very windy day and the flowers were bending sideways in the wind, not making it a good subject for a photo. I thought I'll wait for a calm day and take the pictures later, but by the time I got around to it the flowers had dried up and all that was left were the leaves of the plant. I thought I'd try pinching the dried up flowers back and waiting and voila, the flowers came back nicer then ever and made an excellent subject to paint.
Painting flowers is not my speciality but I persevered through six different versions of my painting, getting more frustrated with each version. However on the seventh version everything seemed to fall into place and my result was something that I liked and hope you do too.
Your comments are much appreciated, so let me know what you think.
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