What about Tulips?
Tulips
In many ways the Tulips have significant meanings. The one everyone relates to is the change from winter to spring. That moment is short lived, as these flowers sprout from the ground in cool weather, the warmer it becomes the shorter those flowers will shine. Growing up in the cooler climate we had spring flowers bloom in our yard sequentially. First the crocuses, daffodils and then shortly thereafter the brilliant colors from the tulips. Those memories embeded so deeply that my first profession was a career with flowers. Ok so there are a few secrets in why today, I still get goosebumps when I see spring flowers.
Heliotropic plants have the ability to follow the path of the sun throughout the day?
Red Tulips oil painted with a palette knife
Painting Tulips
The challenge is living in a tropical climate, where does one find tulips? The visits to the grocery store on Thursday is mandatory to catch the blooms in buds so I can use them to paint. The sweet moment of flowers are short lived. Recognizing the colors of petals, the brilliance or dull colors give me a chance to understand the timeframe needed to complete a painting. The flowers on the left were on their last moments, so I took the palette knife and moved quickly through the strokes. This is one of my favorites as it shows the freedoms found in the stroke of the knife!
These red tulips were painted with a brush. The objective was to follow the light in this still-life painting. Remembering that this was a moment of clear observation scanning each shift in color among the various tissues of these flowers, stems and leaves. Always questioning, how does one know the fine details of these gems? Was it growing up watching flowers, working with 1000’s of bunches of flowers, or just because it is nature touching our hearts. And the answer, it doesn’t matter.
The first tulip painting finished in the keys.
“If we could see the miracle of a single flower, clearly our whole life would change”
Buddha
Paint Still Wet
Here it is the first tulip painting of 2022. Last week I posted these beautiful red flowers. Today we see the finished painting. The real joy is spending painting moments with these flowers. I urge you not to miss out on spring and celebrate yourself or others with a bunch of Tulips. You won’t be disappointed. And if you do miss out maybe a painting to enjoy all year!
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