Sunflower Paintings by Sundell   by Lexi

Rating: 1 - I can do better 2 - Jury's out 3 - Pretty darn good 4 - Splendiferous 5 - Awesometastic (by 3 people)   Your rating: 1 - I can do better 2 - Jury's out 3 - Pretty darn good 4 - Splendiferous 5 - Awesometastic

Happiness is a Sunflower Painting

I just love painting glorious summer sunflowers in rich butterscotch yellows and golds. I grow a lot of these flowers in my gardens for the goldfinches every year so I usually have plenty of sunflowers to paint.

Last year was difficult because for the first time the deer ate my sunflowers and hollyhocks! But I did manage to paint a few anyway.

This image is a detail from Summer Awakening, shown below.

All my artwork shown on this lens is copyright protected but if you would like prints, or originals for that matter, you can find them on my art site featuring my flower paintings.

Sun Angel

Sun Angel 

An Acrylic Painting 30" wide by 40" high

This floral painting is an intimate view of a sunflower showing the petals protectively enclosing the center.

The yellows in this painting are quite golden toned.

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Summer Awakening

Summer Awakening by Sundell 

An Acrylic Painting 48" wide by 36" high

I had a bouquet of sunflowers from my garden and moved in close to look at them. This sunflower painting emerged from that moment.

The Sunflower Is Not a Flower 

I Am Not Kidding, Read On!

Sunflowers belong to the composite family which means each blooming head is actually a tight grouping of one to two thousand flowers.

Each part we call a petal on a sunflower is actually a ray floret, a complete flower in its own right. The ray florets have hugely exaggerated golden corollas.

The richly patterned centers are composed of disc florets which contain both pistils and stamens so they can produce seeds.

The sunflower is more like a city of flowers than an individual flower.

What do you think of Sunflower Paintings by Sundell? 

carrieokier

Beautiful. I'm so jealous of artists. I can barely draw a stick figure!

Posted May 05, 2008
lovemybob

Impressive depth and texture, great work! Welcome to The Painting Group!

Posted April 27, 2008
Irenemaria

I bet it took you hours of painting each flower. Look at those petals! I love it very much.

Posted March 31, 2008
Ener-G

Woo! Just looking at these could be the next alternative treatment for depression!

Posted March 16, 2008
Lilly

I love your work, it's fantastic. It must be something to see it huuuuuuge. It has a great feeling and is stunning.

Posted March 15, 2008

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Hi, I am Lexi Sundell, an artist passionate about painting flowers, poppies in particular. I live in Ennis, Montana and grow most of the flowers I paint. My painting...  more
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