Dancing Poppies on Orange

Description

Poppies have always been my flower of choice to paint.  Their stems look like gestural dancers blowing in the wind with large flower heads too big for their bodies.  I like to try and capture their wispy nature and the delicate beauty of their tissue like petals.

I generally paint my poppies in series, focusing on different design ideas and color palettes.  This painting is from a series of three paintings in a horizontal format, showing more of a close up of a tangle of long stemmed poppies.