Sunflower #3 Canvas Print

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The brilliant yellows of sunflowers brighten the spirit. For me, I reminisce. It reminds me of my childhood; gathering a bouquet for Mom, getting the cows at evening milking time, observing the ants and bees partake of the flower’s nectar, and watching the floret faces turn to the sun. It is a reminder of driving across western Nebraska and central Kansas with miles and miles of sunflowers lining the highways and in Colorado, seeing acres of fields planted for commercial sales. However, I took my reference photo for this flower in a Maine farmer’s yard.
The sunflower is a symbol of warmth, strength, happiness, and good luck.
I painted this sunflower with Dr. Ph. Martin Hydrus watercolor paints and white ink on 300 lbs Cold Pressed watercolor paper. Sold

Bonnie Young connects to rural life and landscape because they reflect her roots. She discovered the love of painting the light and shadows and their effects on her subjects as she studied nature. For her, painting is an artistic articulation of life captured in watercolor or digital creations. Watercolor allows her to build depth and detail through layering glazes. While still attending elementary school in a one room schoolhouse in the Nebraska Sandhills, she began painting. For most of her adult life, she lived in the midwest and west. She studied art at Kansas State University, the Canton Museum of Art in Canton, Ohio, and the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Colorado. In Colorado, she studied under Janet Nunn, an award...