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gallery 12...vermilion poppies...papaver orientale...red flowers
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Papaver Orientale
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"Papaver Orientale" [2005]
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Artist's Notes
I grew up in an old-fashioned neighborhood where immigrant old ladies (like my own grammy) meticulously attended their gardens of vegetables, fruit trees and perennial flowers. One neighbor had a long border of dark purple iris and vermilion poppies that startled me so that I've never forgotten it. And now it's me who's the "old lady".
Every part of a papaver is fascinating, and every part is unusually "photogenic". This luminous shade of vermilion just cannot be represented in a photograph. The shade is "out of gamut" and prints appear dull by comparison, so there is a big challenge here. No wonder Georgia O'Keeffe painted them over and over.
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"Papaver Orientale (paint palette)" [2005]
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"Poppies On Parade" [2005] view
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"Poppies and Lilacs" [2005] view
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Other square format cards: more clematis parrot tulips
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Related links: lilacs, Tribute to Georgia O'Keeffe.
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