I guess that most artists plan their compositions.  I’m usually no exception to this method of working.  That is until ‘Roots and Daisies’ kind of happened, shown below here:

The composition for ‘Roots and Daisies’ was always intended to actually represent daisies.  I purchased daisies for this express purpose and photographed them in various arrangements on a table.

For me it made sense to create this artwork somewhat different.  To tell you a story.

Here is a close up of the artwork roots:

Please notice the texture, brush lines and cascading light effects.

Again, as with the haze of confusion that I described in an earlier blog [see Art in the Making referring to ‘Creative Mind’] I became absorbed whilst painting the roots in this artwork.  Very much experimentation to find shapes and lines that I found most agreeable.

Overlapping the roots was quite delicious as I continued working with a syrupy linseed oil.  To me as pleasurable as eating figs.

The brush beautifully flowed in immensely relaxing canvas moments. Adding darker paints mostly to the right hand side of the many roots to bring forward depth and solidity.  The roots scattered about like an ancient story of thousands of years passing by.

A composition derived from a 4th March 2013 photograph of a floral arrangement.

Here is a close up of the left-side daisies:

It would be so lovely to be to Light as Van Gogh is to Sunflowers.

I really do hope you like this composition.