These Shirley Poppies make a beautiful sight. The background is so soothing with beautiful shades of aquas and greens. The individual poppies are painted to show the beautiful shades in the petals and the delicate white edges.

This is a giclee of an original oil painting of mine. Now that I have sold the original I am selling giclees of it. I enjoyed painting the golds and yellows of the rose and the leaf background with its subdued beauty.

Real roses in an old pitcher and a red vase with a few more roses made up this scene. Using my stubby,fat brush and lots of medium I painted them using white only after it was roughed in. I worked hard to get a pleasing color palette and a good composition in this 16x20.

I photographed every iris on my street that year. When I got home, I enlarged some of the blooms and arranged them the way I wanted them. I was trying to make them look as if they were all growing together. Irises are so gorgeous.