O'Keefe. Another painting exercise that is wonderfully exciting is what I call "Blown Up Blooms". Georgia said that she painted large blooms to produce more impact, as people don't really SEE flowers...they pass them by. True.....big is good....big can be seen. Another by product is the fact that we can't rely on reality as much. Each part of the bloom, the petal or the leaf for example, is so much larger that we have to rely on our creativity with the paint. It also, to me, has a more modern look. Perhaps the little vases of posies have been overdone so much that, even if beautifully done, they have become visual chloroform to me. So.....blown up blooms.
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| Sunflower Head watercolor 8 x 8 |
