This Here Sunflower
by Beverley Harper Tinsley
Original - Sold
Price
$175
Dimensions
8.000 x 8.000 inches
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Title
This Here Sunflower
Artist
Beverley Harper Tinsley
Medium
Painting - Watercolor And Graphite
Description
A warm, golden sunflower glow on a cool background.When I was a kid, I always knew I'd grow up to be the kind of adult who grows sunflowers. This Here Sunflower is a celebration of strength and vibrancy.
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Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is an annual plant native to the Americas. It possesses a large inflorescence (flowering head), and its name is derived from the flower's shape and image, which is often used to depict the sun. The plant has a rough, hairy stem, broad, coarsely toothed, rough leaves and circular heads of flowers. The heads consist of many individual flowers which mature into seeds, often in the hundreds, on a receptacle base. From the Americas, sunflower seeds were brought to Europe in the 16th century, where, along with sunflower oil, they became a widespread cooking ingredient. Leaves of the sunflower can be used as cattle feed, while the stems contain a fibre which may be used in paper production.
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A common misconception is that flowering sunflower heads track the Sun across the sky. Although immature flower buds exhibit this behaviour, the mature flowering heads point in a fixed (and typically easterly) direction throughout the day. This old misconception was disputed in 1597 by the English botanist John Gerard, who grew sunflowers in his famous herbal garden: "[some] have reported it to turn with the Sun, the which I could never observe, although I have endeavored to find out the truth of it." The uniform alignment of sunflower heads in a field might give some people the false impression that the flowers are tracking the sun.
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The uniform alignment results from heliotropism in an earlier development stage, the bud stage, before the appearance of flower heads (anthesis). The buds are heliotropic until the end of the bud stage, and finally face East. Their heliotropic motion is a circadian rhythm, synchronized by the sun, which continues if the sun disappears on cloudy days. If a sunflower plant in the bud stage is rotated 180�, the bud will be turning away from the sun for a few days, as resynchronization by the sun takes time. The heliotropic motion of the bud is performed by the pulvinus, a flexible segment just below the bud, due to reversible changes in turgor pressure, which occurs without growth.
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Original professionally matted and framed.
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March 29th, 2013
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Comments (29)
Kay Brewer
Congratulations on your fabulous art and you being chosen as a Showcase Artist for Valentine's Day in the Visions of Spring - Glances of Summer Group! l/f
Kay Brewer
Congratulations on your beautiful art being featured on the Homepage of Visions of Spring - Glances of Summer as a Showcase Artist for Valentine's Day! l/f
Donna Kennedy
Congratulations on your Special Valentine Showcase Artist Feature of the Week in Visions of Spring-Glances of Summer!...L
Dora Sofia Caputo Photographic Art and Design
Congratulations, Beverley, for being chosen as one of the SHOWCASE ARTISTS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY. It is a privilege to feature your outstanding artwork on the Homepage of the Visions of Spring - Glances of Summer Group. F/L.
Tonya Merrick
Congratulations Beverley Harper your artwork "This Here Sunflower" has been featured on the homepage of SQUARE ART WORLD
ANA MARIA EDULESCU
What a beauty !!!! Gorgeous and proud sunflower you painted, Beverley. f,v
Beverley Harper Tinsley replied:
Thanks once again, Ana. I know you also have a love of painting sunflowers!