A special order

        

A very sweet woman here asked if I would ever paint something special for her.  Her brother died in a horrible accident at work 4-5 years ago.  He worked at a sunflower processing plant.  She wanted something to show them both, possibly in a sunflower field.  Boy, I struggled.  It took 4 attempts.  First I tried larger fields, but she did want me to show them both as blondes with blue eyes and the further away his image got, the less detail I could get in.  Finally I decided on a close-up view and hopefully the ‘in a sunflower field’ comes across here.  I did layers of 1” papers again, put on a background paint and then sketched and wood burned the design.  I found it extremely difficult to do a male figure/face without it looking TOO feminine.  I hope I accomplished it somewhat.   Thank God she wanted whimsical and not realistic

I hope you are all having a great January.  I can’t believe it’s almost over!  I’ve hit my normal January brick wall where almost all of my creativity comes to a complete stop after the holidays.  I’m really hoping it kicks into gear soon!  I have tons of ideas in this head of mine, just haven’t had the urge to get them onto canvas yet.