I find some flowers especially challenging to paint and roses are one of those! Here I tried something more experimental with colour and paint application.
Since these are single-petaled roses, they were not the same challenge as with the regular double-petaled type. I love old-fashioned single-petaled roses. They have a sweet simplicity and usually an amazing scent.
A rose by any name at all
would still delight a poet’s nose
by putting out its scented call,
to blossom bright and be his Muse.
A simple burst of complex colour
pink and red and maybe yellow
dancing in the foliage
sans pluie et sans la neige:
spring’s eternal budding flower
thorny-sharp and softly scented
in the winter much lamented
for its deep entrancing power.
A rose by any other name
Would still set our hearts aflame.
image (c) 2018 Hilary Farmer
poem (c) 2018 TJ Radcliffe
Simply gorgeous, ….the brush strokes are almost lyrical, and for some reason I immediately thought of Mary Cassatt.
Thank you! Interesting comparison …not one I would have thought of – but her work is beautiful!
There is a fire burning inside the red flowers. Beautiful!
Nice touch rhyming French and English words too!
You are quite a team!
Thank you Max! 😊