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November, 2008
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My First Orchid Painting
I read a book about orchids, "The Orchid Thief" by Susan Orlean that was made into a movie, “Adaptation.” The story was so compelling that I decided to go to Florida and go to an orchid show and see what was going on there. It was wonderful. I was overwhelmed by the variety and luxurious color of the thousands of orchids on display. Also, the people who grow orchids and sell them were fascinating to talk to. Not long afterward I had back surgery and couldn’t do much in the way of painting, so I set out my pens and colored pencils and began to draw orchids on a small watercolor tablet that I had brought with me to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago where I was recovering and being rehabilitated. My first orchid painting inspired me to continue these drawings until I had 100 orchid paintings. I thought that would be a good plan because it gave me a long term goal that I could work on at a small scale. At the moment I am working on number 61 and two years have passed. Many of these drawings are reproduced on Zazzle and Greeting Card Universe in the form of note cards, prints and shirts. Great fun for me to see them digitally reproduced and wonderful for anyone who buys these products. Now I can review the many drawings and paintings I made in this series and see how the idea developed and changed over time.
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Contributor's Note
I hope I can exhibit them when I have 100 paintings.
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Orchid No. 1
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Added by Julie Richman on February 28, 10:52 PM.
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That's an ambitious series! Good luck with it. I would love to see an exhibit of the entire series, because if you paint the same subject 100 times, your personal growth as an artist is going to be explosive. Cool idea there!
CONTRIBUTOR'S REPLY
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The paintings are continuing but the orchids are changing into some other kind of flower. I guess it can’t be called the orchid series any more. The odd flower series is more like it.
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There are so many orchid species that your fantasy flowers may not be that far from the reality though. Of course you'd know. It's still cool that you're doing this. Are you using references or starting to paint them from imagination when you talk about doing odd flowers? I should do an orchid or two sometime, it'd be cool.
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