Zinnia Zing

"Zinnia Zing"
16" x 20"
Oil on stretched canvas
She was still unfurling when I happened on her in the garden that morning.  She probably turned into quite the beauty by the end of the day, but I had already left her zip code by then. 


I used my sponges on the petals of this zinnia to glaze a variety of colors over the initial application of lemon yellow.  I hope to find more multicolored blooms like her this summer to sustain me through winter.

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Pink Zinnia

"Pink Zinnia"
8" x 8"
Oil on hardboard
She was one of the few in the garden that the bugs hadn't munched. She was full-blown and receptive to pollination, yet tiny—about the size of a ping pong ball—obviously the end of the season runt, yet she still had what it took! 


This painting used six different reds mixed with white. I would have enjoyed painting her even more had her actual color been more varied.

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Carol

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Zinnia Simplica "

"Zinnia Simplica"
8" x 10"
Oil on wrapped canvas 
She was simply the only zinnia left; colorful complementary colors, whorled petals.  She was hidden under a leaf, the last of her kind in the garden next to the building where I meet for painting critiques. 

I tend, as I'm finding out, to paint complementary color schemes more often than not.  They seem to please me. I don't think I seek them, or plan them in advance, but when it comes time to smear paint on something, I'm pretty consistently ending up with two colors across the traditional color wheel from each other.

Simple Zinnia, here is for sale through dailypaintworks.com.  If you click the web address it'll take you to my gallery on that site.  It's kind of fun to see all the paintings from my blog in one neat, tidy spot—with no words!

Thanks for stopping by.
Carol