Wood Sorrel (Oxalis) are some of my favorite plants. They have leaves that look like four-leaf clovers and taste like sour candy, because they're full of Oxalic acid. And they have lots of tiny, delicate flowers almost all year round. But my favorite thing about these plants is their seed pods, when the seeds are ripe and ready to go the pod explodes and launches itty bitty seeds all over the place.
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| Wood Sorrel leaves and seed pod, you can see the few seeds left that didn't get launched. |
This painting didn't work out like I had planned, I was hoping to keep the background just in pencil. But the pencil looked too spotty to me, so I ended up using thick Torrit Grey paint instead.
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| Oxalis, unfinished,11x14 Claybord wood panel. I started the painting in pencil, and set up the shadows on the flowers. Then I got a flower blossom and matched the paint color to it, because the color in the photo was way off. |
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| Oxalis, detail, oil paint on 11x14 Claybord wood panel. |
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| Oxalis, finished, oil paint on 11x14 Claybord wood panel. |
