For a moment I started to believe I should never purchase flowers on a Friday. Especially if it is before a show. I bought them, put them in a vase and had to wait until after the show, decompression and unpacking before I could get to the actual painting of them.
I have a mini fridge in my studio that I keep flowers in to hold them over from painting to painting but it only keeps them fresh for so long. At some point they start to lose that fresh cut appeal.
I'm not sure that was a deficite for me. I kind of liked the droopy, almost done look I got from these. So much that I did another, larger gallery piece. So that moment of early purchase regret passed and I learned something really important about myself. There is real character in imperfect arrangements. Droopy blooms. Shortened stems. Whatever.
Sure, the bold, symmetrical, happy bouquets are beautiful and have their place in artwork but it all depends on what statement you, as an artist, are trying to make.
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