Poppy Designs
Poppy Designs

Poppy Designs

POPPIES AND PODS

Beautiful petals, Beautiful pods...

A most beautiful flower... the fragile petals oriental poppies last only a day or so.  Photos on author's photography site... 

Pods take summer months to develop hard casings by autumn, as 'space ships' for their precious seeds.  The brown background star shape is copied from the centre of a pod, from bird's eye view.  In retrospect, this natural star shape could be more abstract, in blue/green background colours.  I enjoyed this experimental painting during 2020 lockdown.  These beautiful shapes lend themselves to many variations on designs.  More coming soon...

Finished small painting

Stages of colouring in finished painting.  Slide show plays automatically.  Click an image for Lightbox carousel view with captions.