"Fat" Blooms on Illustration Friday
When I first saw that the Illustration Friday topic "fat" - well my inclination was to submit a piece of fancy chocolate with arms and legs - a walking fat bomb as it were.
But when I was working on ideas these plump juicy blossoms kept popping into my mind.
Designed in 2006 specially for the British Columbia Art Teachers' Conference, until now this artistamp has been exclusive to that group.
After all, Nick Bantock was speaking - we had to give the teachers something to take back to their classes to help them create imaginative correspondence!
In the end - after multiple other ideas had come and gone, I made a change to the border and a few minor tweaks - so the BC Teachers still have something special and exclusive to them - and I decided to submit the bursting blooms to Illustration Friday.
The blooms are "foxglove". This plant grows as a wildflower in BC, but it is attractive enough that I have transplanted some, from a local powerline field, into my back yard garden, along with the lovely purple lupins that grow wild around here. Both plants are tall, 2 to 4 feet, the foxglove usually closer to 4 ft. Foxglove is seen in whites, yellows and pinks.
It is the plant from which is derived the heart drug, "digitalis".
Posted by: Adrianne Stone | 05/10/2006 at 02:22 AM
Beautiful flowers!!...and, love the colors. Nice!
Posted by: txartcgal | 05/08/2006 at 08:42 AM