Anthropomorphic Flowers

About ten years ago, I visited the SF MOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) and discovered the picture Blossoms in the Night by Paul Klee, which I instantly fell in love with. There is something about the flowers, which look like they are cheerfully dancing in the moonlight, that appealed to me. I ended up sketching little anthropomorphic, dancing flowers for ages, after that - pansies and roses, all joyfully dancing in the garden. I was in love.

The other day, I pulled out one of the sketches from the Alice series I've been talking about for the last hundred million years (well, since August, but you know what I mean) and thought, "Hmmm... perhaps I'm ready to paint this now." I love and adore the human-like flowers surrounding Alice. They are quite intimidating, aren't they?

Poor Alice.

Here is a little sneak peek at what will most likely be my next watercolor painting. I'm still frightened of watercolors, but I'm not really seeing this one in colored pencil when I visualize it finished in my head. So watercolors it will be. Good thing I have a large stash of paper, because I might have to paint and repaint and repaint again, with this one.

For all you other dancing flower lovers out there, here are a few Etsy favorites of mine.

Poppy Orange
Fine Art Photograph
by Allie Art 4 Children
www.allieart4children.etsy.com
(15% of each purchase from this shop will go to Reach Out Children's Fund, a non-profit organization benefiting people in the remote areas of the Andes mountains of Peru.)

My Deep Purple Dream
Original Watercolor
by Karen Faulkner
www.karenfaulknerart.etsy.com

Two Flowers
Original Mixed Media Collage
by Alisa Nordholt-Dean
www.prettylittlependant.etsy.com

Aren't they so lovely? Yup, I agree.

Enjoy!
xoxo,