Beauty and Hotness

Copyright © 2011 by Linda Warner Constantino

I have spent some time painting from life in my vegetable garden this summer. The heat and relentless ants have made it challenging. Before I could paint this sunflower in its classic beauty, it was already past its prime. I could not bear to pull it up and became captivated with how it changed as it progressed through its end stages and found an elegance that I tried to capture in this study. The curling of the petals and the leaves had visual rhythm and dignity to them. Beauty redefined.