I’ve had fun lately with painting some still life flowers, usually flowers I get from Whole Foods or Costco.

I usually arrange a couple stems on the default flowers that I get and then take a source photo and work from that. A couple of time, I’ve painted the flowers from life.

I also tried painting the flowers on wood, the two paintings immediately above are on gessoed wood surfaces. With the heavy impasto texture of the paint, the surface didn’t matter an extreme amount.

My most recent flower project has been using leftover paint from larger flower pieces to make tiny flower pieces, like these 4 x 4 in canvases. I call these “Fantasy Flowers” because they don’t really exist, the flowers are sort of based on real arrangements, but they don’t represent actual blooms.

Overall, I’ve enjoyed working with flowers, both the still life arrangements and Fantasy Flowers, and I plan to do much more work with them in the future.