Jardin du Viole - Garden of Purple Acrylic Print

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"Jardin du Violé (Garden of Purple)"

A digital oil pastel painting of a violet purple Dutch iris flower blooming in a field of teal green. First in a diptych series of two. Please visit my Contemporary Botanicals art gallery to see the other piece in the series.

With this image I celebrate my 1000th artwork posted. I chose this image in particular because in addition to being one of my favorites, it has special meaning to me; my wedding flowers were white roses and Dutch iris.

Copyright 2018 Susan Maxwell Schmidt, all rights reserved.

My mind lives in a rather strange world of its own, in a state which I tend to refer to as "delightfully twisted." Through my art, which I am vehemently determined to continue to create with as little outside influence as possible, I work tirelessly to interpret the concepts my mind creates in a moment-by-moment barrage of ideas that always seem to come faster than I can realize them in a tangible form. Though my artwork over the past 40 years has evolved from my early days of shooting on film to manifesting itself in many different forms of more contemporary media, from the delicate transparency of digital watercolor, to the no-holds-barred starkness of noir digital photography, to even the fanciful abstract-turned-conceptual properties...