Sunflower Portrait Close Up Painting Digital Art
by Sandi OReilly
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Sunflower Portrait Close Up Painting Digital Art
Artist
Sandi OReilly
Medium
Mixed Media - Mixed Media Photograph, Painting Digital Art
Description
Sunflower Portrait Close Up image was found in a field of sunflowers that I digitally painted with acrylic and oil bristle brushes in Corel painter, and added some touches in Photoshop. They are one of my favorite flowers and hope you like this one. The sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is a living annual plant in the family Asteraceae, with a large flower head (capitulum). The stem of the flower can grow up to 3 metres tall, with a flower head that can be 30 cm wide. Other types of sunflowers include the California Royal Sunflower, which has a burgundy (red + purple) flower head.
The flower head is actually an inflorescence made of hundreds or thousands of tiny flowers called florets. The central florets look like the centre of a normal flower, apseudanthium. The benefit to the plant is that it is very easily seen by the insects and birds which pollinate it, and it produces thousands of seeds.
The sunflower is the state flower of Kansas. That is why Kansas is sometimes called the Sunflower State. To grow well, sunflowers need full sun. They grow best in fertile, wet, well-drained soil with a lot of mulch. In commercial planting, seeds are planted 45 cm (1.5 ft) apart and 2.5 cm (1 in) deep. he outer petal-bearing florets are the sterile florets and can be yellow, red, orange, or other colors. The florets inside the circular head are called disc florets, which mature into seeds. Fine Art Mixed Media Photography, Painting Digital Artwork by Sandi OReilly. All Rights Reserved and Copyrighted in the US and Internationally. NO use of this image without my written permission.
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June 11th, 2021
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