Spring is here- Sunflowers
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Sunflowers
It is quite understandable  Van Gogh's passion  for sunflowers, this is a beautiful flower when it blooms , lives beautifully  and it can become even more beautiful when dying. Its warm hues turns gray, its leaves twists and turns like a ballet in a circular dance.
I was privileged to live a few days with them and yesterday decided to capture their last minutes of life.

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Labels: floral painting, impressionism, Sandra Nunes, sennelier, soft pastel, spring, sunflowers, vincent van gogh, walls paper

Vitória Regia, Star of the Waters
Friday, May 22, 2015

There´s a Tupi Guarani legend which tells that whenever the moon hid itself behind the horizon, it took its favorite maiden to live in the sky. If the moon fell in love with a girl, the girl would turn into a star. Naia, daughter of an Indian chief and princess of the tribe, was impressed with the story. Then at night when everyone was asleep , she climbed the hills chasing for the moon in the hope that it would see her.But the moon did not seem to notice her and couldn´t hear her sobs of sadness in the distance. One night, Naia saw in the clear waters of a lake the shape of the moon. The poor girl, imagining that the moon had come to pick her up, threw herself into the deep waters of the lake and was never seen again.

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Labels: Botanical Garden, floral painting, oil painting, pleinairpainting, Sandra Nunes, star of the waters, victoria regia, victoria_amazonica

2012 last pastel strokes - Happy New Year!
Monday, December 31, 2012

Last day of the year , the weather is unbelievably hot in Rio,  too much for plein air painting. So, I went to the studio, the idea was to organize a bit of the mess in order to start fresh the new year.
But I could not resist the appeal of my Christmas poinsettias in a green vase...

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Labels: floral painting, impressionistic painting, plein air painting, poinsettias, Sandra Nunes, soft pastels, wallis paper