Past Prime Daisies
by Phil Chadwick
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10.000 x 12.000 x 0.250 inches
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Title
Past Prime Daisies
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Panel
Description
I like daisies. Perhaps I love daisies. Maybe these particular flowers were past their prime but aren't we all? I found these flowers on the edge of the lane right in front of the Singleton Studio.
I try to paint bellis perennis every year. Bellis may come from bellus, Latin for "pretty", and perennis is Latin for "everlasting". They are a pretty and happy little flower and sprout almost anywhere without asking for any care - my kind of garden flower. The leaves of the daisy are also good in salads. The daisy is also the April birth flower so I guess it is especially appropriate for me to try to capture them in oil. I didn't count the petals as I painted but now, after completion, the text book says that there are 30 petals in the daisies that I painted. The white petals are stacked and overlapped so the number in the painting is what I saw - or close enough.
Daisies belong to the daisy family of Compositae, now known as Asteraceae in flowering plants. Daisies are native to north and central Europe. The origin of the word Daisy is a corruption of the Anglo Saxon "day's eye", because the whole head closes down at night and opens in the morning. Chaucer called it "eye of the day". In Medieval times, Bellis perennis or the English Daisy was commonly known as "Mary's Rose". It is also known as bone flower. The English Daisy is also considered to be a flower of children and innocence. Daisy is often used as a girl's name and as a nickname for girls named Margaret, after the French name for the oxeye daisy, marguerite. Who knew all this stuff?
Daisies thrive in full sun to partial shade conditions, and require little or no maintenance. Daisies may be propagated either by seed or by division after flowering.
Historically, it has also been commonly known as bruisewort and occasionally woundwort. Some of the varieties of Daisies are the white Daisy-like flowers, the Spanish Daisy, Blue Daisy, Lazy Daisy or Prairie Daisy, African Daisy, Michaelmas Daisy, Swan River Daisy, Tatarian Daisy, Painted Daisy, Paris Daisy, Shasta Daisy, Crown-Daisy, Ox-eye Daisy, Nippon Oxeye Daisy, Giant Daisy, African Daisy, Kingfisher Daisy, Sunshine Daisy, Gerbera Daisy, Transvaal Daisy or Barberton Daisy, Tahoka Daisy, Livingstone Daisy, Gloriosa Daisy, Dahlberg Daisy and Butter Daisy.
The number of this painting is special to me - the year of my birth and a century after the birth of Vincent Van Gogh. I hope that Vincent would approve.
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