Blue Vase with Two Sunflowers Still Life Pastel Painting

by Karen Kaspar

Blue Vase with Two Sunflowers is a pastel painting in portrait format painted by the artist Karen Kaspar. The still life shows two beautiful sunflower blossoms in bright yellow and orange tones framed by green leaves in a simple vase in blue tones. The background is abstracted in shades of blue, pink and purple. The pastel painting was painted on special velour paper. The texture of this paper contributes to the dreamy, soft and somewhat blurred impression of the pastel painting. This painting is part of my series of sunflower paintings. Fascinated by the beauty of the beautiful bright yellow sunflowers blooming in the summer gardens and sunflower fields around me, I decided to challenge myself and paint a series of sunflower paintings in many different techniques, experimenting with different mediums such as watercolour, pastels, acrylics, oil pastels, pencil, ink and charcoal and trying different papers and styles. This was great fun. You can find more of them in my album Flowers, more pictures will be added continuously. It's best to keep checking back. 444