Sunflowers Oil Painting + Butterfly

So I decided to go ahead and work on that sunflower painting today!  Got a good start this morning and will start again tomorrow.  My wife and oldest daughter stopped by a field close to a place called the Agricenter here in Memphis and snapped some photos of these beautiful sunflowers when they were in full bloom.  They do this every year and each year I stop by and take a look and some photos.  Just happened to catch a nice butterfly leaving a flower.  Thought it would make a nice painting, so this morning I got to work and knocked it out.  Was fun to paint and have some more to do to it but putting paintings on my blog always makes me want to go back and do some more!  This is a 16x20 oil on canvas.                                                                          
         

Sunflower painting in oil

Oil 11x14 on canvas: Always wanted to try a sunflower painting and enjoyed painting this one. Will probably paint more as I like the bright colors and the complementary of the blue and orange. This is my second flower painting and florals are much more challenging than I thought they would be. My first floral was the large gardenia. Took this painting to a open air market for sale yesterday but had a lot of lookers but no buyers. I enjoy meeting folks at these kind of events. My wife does floral paintings using a stucco base on top of canvas and uses bright colors.