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| "Echinacea River" Painting by Clare Walker Available at Pixels.Com |
Hello there
Hope all's well and happy for you.
Here, as you see, there's a lot that's new here. Firstly, the "Echinacea River", above.
The story behind it
I have to give huge thanks to my friend and very-talented-photographer-in-her-own-right, Marilyn Doyle, that this painting ever even happened.
She shared tales of a happy afternoon. And I was so transfixed by her photograph:
She shared tales of a happy afternoon. And I was so transfixed by her photograph:
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| Photo by Marilyn Doyle, used here and as a reference with her permission. |
that I immediately asked if I could use it as a reference...and found myself with a completed painting in an afternoon, pretty much, (if you come here often, you'll know how rare that is).
So, just enormous thanks to Marilyn for such an inspiring photo, and for the use of your photo here on the blog too. (I would link to her as well, but she doesn't have a website as far as I know).
I mention this all here because I really want Marilyn to get the credit she deserves. And because it's an unusual story behind the "Echinacea River" painting...And because I've already wondered whether these are echinacea (coneflower) or rudbeckia flowers...Or even something else...
Going on their cone shape, and the large prickly seedheads in the middle...I'm sticking with the Echinacea/Coneflowers. But the debate is on, if you want it to be...I'm about to start it on Instagram.
Update on Aug 9th: Have just remembered a great thing about the new shop: you can *comment* below images. Yay! If you have an idea about what these are, please comment here. Many thanks!
Update on August 10th 2025: Have just discovered that the original flowers may have been Euphorbias.
Really not sure what to do about this yet.
Really not sure what to do about this yet.
Hang on a minute. What about this shop thingy?
Ah yes, the new shop. Just in case you're thinking that I may have gone out of my mind to launch this on a Friday evening in August at the bottom of a post about something else... Well, yes, I might.
But this isn't false modesty or anything. It's just the softest possible "launch" (those quotation marks are working particularly hard, there :-) ), so that I can keep everyone whose been such a support in the loop, whilst still being able to correct inevitable mistakes as we discover them.
There will be more on this, I promise. And with that, thanks as ever for reading this far, and for your support...and have a lovely weekend.
More soon.
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