
POPPIES AND PODS
Beautiful petals, Beautiful pods...
A most beautiful flower... fragile petals last only a day or so. Photos on author's photography site...
Painting Studies - Pods take months to develop hard casings providing space ships for their precious seeds. The brown background star shape to painting is the centre of a pod from bird's eye view. In retrospect, star shape could be more abstract, in blue background colours.
Stages of colouring in finished painting. Slide show plays automatically. Click an image for Lightbox carousel view with captions.