This is a close view of the original watercolor painting and I will definately paint more...they are one of my favorite flowers.
They are the inspiration for the poem In Flanders Fields and it just so happens that my first treasury was about poppies and it was called in Flanders Fields.It was written in the first world war by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae after he witnessed the death of his friend and the poem and poppies for Remebrance day and now it's a symbol of our fallen soldier since the First World War.
This is a close view...
This is the full painting...
Another even closer view...
The following is the poem if you would like to read it...In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved, and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders Fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throwThe torch; be yours to hold it high.If ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders Fields.- John McCrae
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I hope you enjoy the painting...I love painting in general but I love the transparency of watercolors...
G.
3 comments:
These are awesome watercolors! I've painted many poppies in oils, but never in w/c. Marvelous job!
Thanks so much for the compliments...I love your stuff too...you are so talented...
I haven't done poppies in such a long time but when I get that feeling of fall...I think of them...I want to do alot more this time...especially because of their meaning to our soldiers in all wars...past and present...
Thanks again...
G.
gorgeous poppies! thanks for sharing the poem, too.
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