Oil painting by Ask
Lilac & yellow wildflowers
After pushing my way through a footpath overgrown with waist high wildflowers and grasses, this awe-inspiring scene took my breath away with its beauty. Early morning, a day or so later, I balanced my easel on the rough steps, hewn out of the warm brown earth, and set about sketching in this scene, till the sun rose too high in the sky around 12 midday.
When I came back to finish the painting, I was met with shock and disbelief, to find that the eager mower I had seen earlier on the footpath, had not only cleared the ‘road’ of flowers, but also totally wiped out the whole display in the field below, leaving it shorn and bare! Only the olive tree was left standing, as a testimony to time immutable.
I carried my easel back to my temporary home, with a heavy heart, as was left with no choice but to use my back up photo, from which to complete this painting.
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