Forever Flowers

No matter how terrible the news, I was looking to keep my flowers from the last week of school forever, so I painted them. My thoughts were with the light, how it changes everything. I wanted to bring emphasis to the sunflower, for the people of Ukraine. Inspired by my self-taught artist-aunt’s realism and a recent up-close show of Michelangelo’s work. I loved the way he brought the figures out of the dark and rolled their faces into the light.