Finding Flowers

I spent time sifting through old notes and documents and found some neat ideas for paintings along the way. All of the doodles from this era were turned into large abstract paintings over the years. My strategy in the past was to combine as many doodles as possible into one painting but I always thought that certain drawing would make good stand alone works. The original doodle had the foot and hands design with the words 'help' 'French' scrawled at the top (help in French... I probably needed a lot of). In the painting, I added the googly-eyes, an embellished environment, and a little pink flower being picked by the left hand of the creature. The eyes are looking down at the flower. Thematically speaking, there is an analogy between picking beautiful flowers, and finding interesting drawings in a pile of papers. The rust colour of the creature was meant to make it look like an iron sculpture similar to the ones I painted on location recently. It is sized at 10 x 11" but I painted it within the boundaries of an 8 x 10" opening which is ideal for easy framing.

Finding Flowers, watercolour 10 x 11" cold press, November 2023 (No. 3661)

 

Here is the original doodle !