Friday, May 10, 2013

Hollyhocks and My Bucket Babies

8x8 Oil on Canvas
by
Cheri Wollenberg
Hollyhocks are an old fashioned flower.  Every time my husband and I take a trip to New Mexico I have a desire to have them all over our farm landscape.  This year I planted some from seed in seeding beds.  My sister (who is a wonderful gardener) said that sometimes they are very hard to transplant to the garden from the seedlings, but I think mine are going to make it.  Oklahoma, especially where we live, has such extremes...high wind one day, lots of rain, no rain, very humid, very dry....on and on.  Anyway, I have protected those babies in buckets with the bottoms cut out......until they are very established they will stay in their little "bucket home".  All this to say that I love them.  I love flowers period and I have such a desire to paint every kind of flower.  I have some digital images I took of hollyhocks at our home in Arkansas filed away in my computer.  I took a look at them yesterday.  This one spoke to me and I painted a small 8x8 painting late yesterday and last night.  I am practicing for when my "bucket babies" are grown and I can paint them live.  Until then painting from a picture will satisfy me.  I have this painting for sale in my Etsy shop.  You are welcome to visit there.

2 comments:

Jennifer Richardson said...

i adore hollyhocks;
thanks for sharing their smiling faces:)
and a most beautiful mother's day
to you, dearheart,
Jennifer

Jennifer Richardson said...

Hollyhocks
are special to my heart
....you capture it's face
so well:)
Happy May-ing to you,
Jennifer

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