Flourishing

[offcntr]

When I first started painting pots, I did a lot of flowers: Iris, daffodils, dandelions even. It was a struggle to sell them, really. Lots of people were painting flowers on pottery, and mine weren't particularly special.

I was really fortunate that I started painting animals, chickens first, then elephants and cats and--well you know where that took me. And people liked them, bought them, and I enjoyed painting them.

And now, 28 years later, I'm getting requests for flowers again. Specific ones, this time: lupine, echinacea, Queen Anne's lace, poppies. I painted this set, posted them to Instagram, and promptly got an order for more, only could I paint a balloon flower instead of the lupine?

As it happens, I could, I'd done two each of the first four, and had an extra I could balloon on. But it makes me wonder: Has the tide of taste changed? Are flowers going to be in demand now? Will I have to stop painting bunnies?

Probably not. And I'm not likely to start putting flowers out on the shelf at Saturday Market, at least not regularly. But I gotta admit, it was fun to try something different again. And I paint them a lot better than I did all those years ago.

Comments

[james]

There's always painting bunnies eating flowers. Painting a carnivorous flower eating a bunny?

[offcntr]

Been there, done that.

[james]

Cute!