Monday, August 6, 2007Do you know what this flower is? Sis says this plant is a volunteer in her garden this year & we don't know what it is. A very large bush, probably 6+ feet tall and nearly that across. It's loaded with this bright red/orange flowers, the undersides of which are a golden color. As a cut flower it is doing excellently. We used one as a model to paint. If anyone recognizes this plant would you please email me with the name of it? Email: dorleska at tds.net Thanks  A PS: Georgayne in Texas wrote to say, "The flower you pictured appears to be a tithonia or commonly known as the Mexican sunflower." So the mystery is solved. Thank you, Georgayne! posted @ 09:47 PM PST [link] Art is Serious business!  Sis is concentrating on her water color landscape while I sneak a picture. She says she doesn't think wet-on-wet WC is going to be her 'thing'. She just needs practice, I think she did pretty good. We did a couple of still-life's after this landscape that turned out quite nice, if I do say so. I'm home again now so our week of painting together is over for this time, but it was very much fun and very relaxing! We filled a lot of canvases and a lot of paper. I hope we get to do it again before too long. Oh yes... our other sis, in Florida, wanted to paint with us, so we video-taped an hour of "Happy Little oil painting" with us for her. She has a real treat coming! 
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