Painting in Progess 18/05/2013

 I am enjoying painting sunflowers whilst waiting for some summer sunshine to flood the fields . This canvas began life as a group of people to illustrate a painting exercise to a student . I rather approve of the way the figures have become sunflowers like the Greek Myth of Clytie. She went into the garden every day looking for the sun in a vain attempt to find Apollo, rather than getting on with her work. Finally Apollo shot her with an arrow and she turned in to a sunflower .