June Sunflowers
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
June Sunflowers
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
I quite enjoy painting sunflowers. They are happy flowers with a wonderful message. I wanted to turn what looked like a portrait painting into a landscape format. There was some artistic sleight of hand required in the composition but not too much.
These sunflowers came from a florist in celebration of birthdays and a party held within the Singleton Sanctuary. I thought that the flowers were so beautiful after the festivities that they needed to be recorded for posterity in oils. A similar story had happened before in 2021 when I painted #2565 "Past Prime Sunflower Bouquet", #2566 "Sunflower Bouquet Last Daze" and #2567 "Wilted Sunflowers". I almost used an identical painting name again when I painted four works based on this particular 2023 group of sunflowers. But this time there was only a single, wilted sunflower in #2786 "Wilted Sunflower". The other paintings in the 2023 series of sunflowers are #2787 "Sunflowers Still Shining" and #2788 "Sunflowers Last Day".
I used a lot of paint. Yellow is an especially weak colour and I used two palettes to keep my colours clean. There was no preliminary drawing and I just charged at the canvas letting the oils flow and hoping that something good might result. The music was on loud. I wanted this painting to be bold and different.
The Air Quality was bad due to the extensive fires in the Boreal forest. People were advised to stay inside - and that included artists. The weather and the associated impacts were all a result of climate change. I painted within the Singleton Studio in order to avoid the smoke and still be creative.
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July 14th, 2023
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Maria Faria Rodrigues
Congratulations, your amazing painting is Featured, in the RED MAPLE GALLERY, homepage group, of Fine Art America!
Maria Faria Rodrigues
Congratulations, your amazing painting is Featured, in ONTARIO CANADA, homepage group, of Fine Art America!