We arrived early morning at the Sunflower Farm to catch the light. The "field trip" was pre-arranged about a week before the festival. The site was great for an artist, we painted plein air and also took lots of pictures for future paintings. 
The old farm house, that is one of the farm's features, has loads of interesting artifacts that are paintings everywhere you look. We all wandered around looking for spots taking in the beautiful country scenery. They have a big garden area where they have planted vegetables along with a variety of different kinds of sunflowers. This area has planting beds with themes done in so many interesting settings from iron beds with flowers to whirly-gigs with bluebirds. Alot of garden whimsy and some great looking vegetables.
The property had vistas of the sunflowers. Donna chose to paint in a spot looking out towards the fields. Sallie chose a shady spot but got a great view of the fields of flowers. Arleen was getting pictures of the locals in this picture of her and Sally was out in the garden in this picture.
The old well was a perfect picture with the well bucket full of bright red geraniums. You'll see old farm implements surrounded by flowers just everywhere.
The next week there will be loads of people getting sunflowers. So as you can see Arleen and Sallie are selecting prime specimens for their bouquets.
We had a great day of painting and enjoyed the rewards of bouquets of sunflowers to take home for still lifes.
1 comment:
Your pictures are great! Rena Holt is my aunt and runs the Sunflower Festival. My mother is her oldest sister and once lived in the sharecropper house. I would love to buy a disk of your pictures from the sunflower farm. I have taken many pictures but yours are really good.
Hope you come again this year!
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