More Small Paintings

This week I tried various renditions of painting sunflowers. Below is a picture that took a bit more time since there were three times that the picture was set aside to dry between color applications. This is a 5" x 7" size, larger than those used for note cards.

(pen and watercolor)

Above is a vase of sunflowers that is about 3" high, pasted to the front of a note card.

Sunflowers are fun to paint.  Their leaves are irregular in size and shape, allowing for yellows and oranges and golds to mingle.  (Remember the back yard fence painted in sunflowers from 

2014, before we sold the homestead?)

Here is another 5" x 7" watercolor on 140 lb. cold press paper.  Again, this one took a bit more time to paint than the quick, smaller pieces.

A few more paintings worked on during early hours of the dark, cool mornings when the fireplace is going and the day is being planned:

The picture below will end today's post.  It is 11" x 14", matted under a dark green, ready to go to the framer's for glass housed under a wooden frame.