Yellow Heirloom Rose - Botanical Print on Fine Art Paper Size:20x20" and rebuilding after so much

and rebuilding after so much had shifted

almost sky-like

more impressionistic passages

I began the painting

And perhaps that’s the point: sometimes the flaw becomes the focal point

Yellow Heirloom Rose - Botanical Print on Fine Art Paper Size:20x20" and rebuilding after so muchTheres something timeless about this roseits soft, antique yellow tinged with traces of pink around the outermost petals. It feels as though it belongs to another era, weathered gently by memory and light. I chose a top down perspective to paint this rose, as I often do, removing distraction, allowing the form itself to become the subject. The spiral of petals draws the eye inwardquietly, insistentlyinviting the viewer to linger. Its a study in aging