Botanical Illustration

I have been going back to my "roots" this past week by doing some botanical or floral paintings. Several years ago while I still had a "day job" I created a floral painting on a card for Mother's Day. I was so proud of it that I took it into work to show it off. Now, I would love to say that that moment was the start of a multi-million dollar business, but alas. I did garner orders for cards for a couple of years from my co-workers, but as with most things that I do, I slacked off. Well, I shouldn't say that, what I really did was branch out. I started painting the flowers on fabric items. I sold these for about ten years, (by this time my job had been "outsourced"). I then started to make my figurative sculptures, large paintings, collages, abstracts, ACEO's. I forgot how wonderful it is to paint a flower.