Sunflower Designs from the Garden

Sunflower Dress
by julia_art

The design on this dress is from a drawing that I did quite a long time ago. Our city lot is certified wildlife habitat and each year we grow several varieties of sunflowers for all of the birds and animal that call this place home.

Each year I draw, photograph and paint a few to add to my design portfolio.

This time I inverted one of them and made the center just a bit larger to add a nice contour to the pattern.  

The sunflowers inspire me and feed them. It's a win,win situation for everyone and everything here.

i'm happy to report that sunflower merchandise also sells well and helps keep it all going.

Scrap Metal and Jar Lids turned into Art in the Garden

What you see on the side of the ramp is what's going to be a great dimensional sunflower made from part of an old solar light and a jar lid. I can't get into that part of the yard but my sister will be painting the section between the 2 pieces to look like the center of a sunflower and then will paint a stem and leaves up that post.

 The metal sun type piece used to be part of a sun shaped solar light but I'm hoping that when we've finished painting around it we'll have the look of the petals of a sunflower in the wind.

Whether it will actually work will depend on how convincing the rest of the painting is. I'll post pictures of the finished project as soon as I can and you can judge for yourselves.

The effect from across the yard should pull all of the sunflower designs together.