Rally In The Sun

by Beverley Harper Tinsley

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$750

Dimensions

12.000 x 12.000 inches

Title

Rally In The Sun

Artist

Beverley Harper Tinsley

Medium

Painting - Watercolor And Graphite

Description

Rally In The Sun
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Rally In The Sun is a passionate, bold, energetic portrait of a group of blooming sunflowers, bursting with vivid color and expressive brushstrokes. These are definitely sunflowers, not wallflowers. Cheerful yellow makes you feel awake and alive, while peaceful rich blue exudes a happy and empowered energy, announcing to the world that these flowers will be seen and heard. Lighting up in the sunlight, shades of rust, orange, gold and umber glow.
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Channeling a bright, sunshiny day, this painting was inspired by the need to bring light into our lives and the diverse and lively gatherings of people who have chosen to make their voices heard, joyfully, and to stand strong together for rights, freedoms, kindness and compassion.
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Every now and then, I just have to paint sunflowers. Wild, strong, not subtle, these sturdy golden flowers always make me feel warm and hopeful. A flower of the autumn, or late summer, they are like a long hard laugh before winter and its potential solemnity. In every stage of life, sunflowers make a statement. They also provide food for so many living things, and ground the idea of beauty in strength, rather than delicacy, resembling the women of Colorado, one of many places where they grow.
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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 degrees, 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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This painting is prices as matted and framed in a simple white mat and black frame.

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March 6th, 2020

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