Star Chain

   

Star Chain
6" x 8"
Oil Painting
by Cynthia Rowland
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Van Gogh was not the only painter to take sunflowers as a subject, but also Piet Mondrian, Georges Braque, William Blake and Emile Nolde. Van Gogh painted six versions of sunflowers and hung them in Gauguin's bedroom in the Yellow House. I find it helpful to keep in mind these artists were just people like you and me, trying to paint and understand the world we live in.

At this time of year, you can find sunflowers everywhere in New Mexico. In this painting, I was really looking to get the form of the sunflower with the color, the shape and the edges, without painting every petal. They were attached to one another in my set up, creating a link of sunflowers, and it reminded me of a bigger version of the daisy chains we use to make when we were kids! They are in the same family, Asteraceae, from the type genus Aster, which is a Greek term meaning "star". 

Star Chain is available at http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/cynthia-rowland/star-chain/161709