It's the art: the tricky cyclamins

Drawing flowers leaves me always a slightly uncomfortable, because they are a bit cheesy as subject. But they are also irresistible especially when you think at the essential, clear lines that Albrecht Durer used in his watercolors.

So I keep drawing them; trying to capture the elegant complexity of their shapes and tones keeps me happily for hours into the right side of my brain.

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Oil on cardboard, 40x30 cm.

In this case I wanted to enhance the contrast between the dark, colorless background and the energy that the leaves of cyclamins project into space. The background itself was also the part that took me more to define, I could not find a good solution for it.
I added the little toy to have some accent of pure color and suggest that the calmness of this place would be soon over, the time of a child nap.