Flower Paintings

Art by Carol May

I have enjoyed and admired flowers all of my life. Flower paintings are both fun and very challenging.
When I was a child daisies were my favorite flower.
So naturally I had to paint them in “Daisies ‘n’ Porcelain”.

I sometimes paint with oils and at
other times I do flower paintings with watercolors.
Here is a watercolor flower painting from my freedom series.
Hibiscus Freedom

I always look forward to springtime with all the flowers blooming. We have an azalea plant in front of our house that blooms every spring with white and pink flowers on the same plant.
So here it is recorded forever in “Azaleas”.

When I got a little older like everybody else, I learned to love roses. Here are ten white roses signifying “Peace”.

You know how I like to coordinated the colors of the flowers to the wildlife. So here I put a Black-chin Hummingbird with Wisteria flowers. I don't believe hummingbirds actually feed from Wisteria flowers, but I liked the lavender color of the flowers to go with the purple throat of the hummer. Beauty is an oil painting on canvas.

Then when I started teaching horticulture I found orchids in the class greenhouses. I quickly became infected with the orchid bug. They are so beautiful. Orchids are found in every country of the world. Some of them like the phalaenopsis have flowers that last for months. When the wild phalaenopsis orchid was first found in the jungles,
they were seen at a distance and the explorers thought that they were a group of white moths flying. Here are some phals in
“White Flight” and they will last forever.

You know I had to do some more orchids in my flower paintings. Doritenopsis is a cross of a Phalenopsis with a Doritis which gives the flowers brilliant colors. They are grown the same way as Phalenopsis.
Learn more about growing orchids.

When my sister and I were young my parents gave each of us a cologne bottle. One had apple blossom cologne and the other had rose blossom cologne. When I went away from home I threw my empty bottle away. After my sister went to heaven I was looking at the plants in her greenhouse and I spotted her cologne bottle.
My brother-in-law gave it to me.
I put some roses in it and painted Cologne Bottle.

The southern magnolia tree has large flowers compared to many other flowers, but I think they are beautiful with their pristine beauty.
And they have a wonderful lemony fragrance.
Here is one with a butterfly checking it out in “Pretties”.

Dragonflies are often seen around the water checking out waterlilies. And I especially enjoyed painting “Waterlily ‘n’ Dragonfly”.

Why don’t you try painting some of your own flowers. It is challenging and rewarding. And then the flowers will last forever.

Or check out some of my paintings and prints in the Art Store

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