Summer, Sun, Sunflower. The golden yellow colours of the sunflowers are painted here with oil pastel chalk. Sunflowers with their beautiful petals that are like rays of the sun. They give hope and colour to the sometimes difficult times, it is an optimistic flower that glows but when it has finished flowering it is sad, let her flower bend down and drop her petals. But even then she is beautiful. Many painters have captured her beauty, including Vincent van Gogh, who became famous the world over with his painted sunflowers.
I have time to draw and paint more after years of volunteer work for the St. Care Foundation The Gambia. Inspiration I got in the Gambia where I also lived. The colors, the population and life is a great source of inspiration. But also the quieter.. Read more…