Painting Sunflowers ...

It has been a week of sunflowers

I bought a couple of stems on a whim the other day at the grocery shop

and yes I did forget half of the things written on my list

why I even write a list is beyond me

but the gorgeous sunflowers made it all quite acceptable

that we still had no milk and dinner was going to have dodgy sides

I started with this sketch of the blooms in my little sketchbook

while having breakfast early in the week

and figured a bigger painting was totally on the cards

because the colours and those magnificent overblown blooms

just needed to be painted again

So the rest of the week was spent on this bigger one

which was done painstakingly bit by bit over the course of three days

as most of it was painted and drawn left handed

due to the fact that I had my dreaded port a cath thingy removed on Tuesday

it has been bulging from my right hand chest like a mad alien growth

since the end of chemo and needed to be accessed and flushed regularly

but I am now deported and along with that fabulous milestone

came the inability to do much with my right arm for a few days

as the stitches needed to stitch and all that

the only problem was that I had been thinking about painting them up

all day Tuesday while I was at the hospital

so by the time I got back I really really wanted to get in and get working on it

turns out left handed was pretty cool

not quite as much control but that works well with what I was going for

Scarily there probably wasn't that much difference in the end result

except that those loose squiggly lines took forever

but it was great to have to get in and actually think about the lines I was using

but at the same time have that lack of control and just see what happens

which turned out surprisingly well

but now I am even more impatient for the stitches to do their thing

so I can get in and do a right handed one and see if there is a difference

happy painting all...xx