A Little Love - Sunflower Bouquet by Nancy Medina

A Little Love, Sunflower Bouquet
by Nancy Medina
8X10
Oil on Canvas
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This oil painting is based on one of my favorite flowers, the sunflower. I planted 9 packets of sunflower seeds in my garden yesterday in hopes of many yellow bloomers later this spring. I mixed them up liberally, putting giants in with the little multicolor ones, and I have them in pots and beds.

I grew up on an organic farm in East Texas and my parents used to grow giant sunflowers to help attract the insects off the vegetable crops. I remember standing barefoot and gazing up into the wide, warm faces of the big sunflowers, and later tasting the seeds toasted fresh from the oven. What good memories!