Saturday, 16 July 2011

The life of an orchid

oil on canvas;
4 * 30 / 30 cm

Present for my Mom, not for sale :)

I love flowers though hate getting them :P I don't like watching the bouquets dying, as it makes me feel uncomfortable that the present is only temporary..

I am completely crazy about Orchids, maybe because when they flower it lasts up to a year, I have over 20 of them at home in Poland :) I dedided to depict the flower's life in different stages: petals, their flowering when the Phaenalopsis looks for me like a beagle puppy with it's ears down, full flowering, dying and drying. For each one I picked slightly different style and oil technique to achieve a varied final effect of the series.

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