Sunflowers Still Shining

by Phil Chadwick

Buy the Original Painting

Price

Not Specified

Dimensions

16.000 x 20.000 x 0.750 inches

Title

Sunflowers Still Shining

Artist

Phil Chadwick

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

Paintings of a particular subject need to come in threes. This is the third in the series of sunflower paintings. It was almost a week probably after the florist harvested these sunflowers and they were starting to show their age. The blooms were getting too heavy for their weakened stems to support. It happens to us all.

The colour choice was to link this painting with its partners in this endeavour. Linda said I must be going through a blue phase... it didn't matter to me. I was having fun and using lots of paint. The brush work was fast and loose and I was listening to tunes in the Studio.

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 #2785 "June Sunflowers", #2786 "Wilted Sunflower", #2787 "Sunflowers Still Shining" and #2788 "Sunflowers Last Day".

The Air Quality was bad once again due to the extensive fires in the Boreal forest. People were advised to stay inside.

Uploaded

July 20th, 2023

Colors

Embed

Share

Tags