"Wildwood Bright"

I won a second place cash award for this!  A competition /show sponsored by "Hanes Companies".

                                          "Wildwood Bright"
                                          60" x 60"
                                          acrylic on canvas
                                          SOLD

"Crepe Myrtle Summer" Mandala

                                                       24" x 36"
                                                       acrylic on canvas

I created this using my sketches of crepe myrtles as reference. The center vortex of the mandala was designed using the forms and lines of the trunk structures.  I make patterns of different aspects of the plant and then manipulate them until I am please with their symmetrical repetitious placement. In this one I decided to include a "botanical" study of a blossom stem.