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This is a 20″x16″ acrylic and gold leaf painting of nasturtiums on canvas.

I love nasturtiums!  I have three sunken pots in my back yard that I plant nasturiums in each spring.  This summer, I decided I wanted to capture the beauty of these trailing flowering plants in a painting.

I knew I wanted a round background of gold leaf, almost like an icon or art nouveau feel.  Initially I was going to have have the rest of the background be a sort of blue and white china pattern, but I quickly realized that is not a skill I currently have and painted back over it with blue.  I decided to go a little more surreal with it, and have them be floating among the clouds.

The hardest part had to be getting the dance of gold foil background and plant to play well together.  I spent a lot of time touching up both. I’m particularly proud of the leaves.

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