One day last week I looked through my old sketchbooks, I have a pile. This page sparked memories of the day I sketched the pasque flower. One of my PEO sisters had been out to the ranch and picked a bucket full of pasque flowers, we each took one home so I sketched it the next couple days. I think it was 2007. Sadly so much native prairie has been tilled or over grazed that finding a pasque flower in the wild is a rare sight. The top pic is a print I did 30 some years ago when I was doing a lot of calligraphy and trying to sell it at art/craft shows, I might have broke even on my printing costs. It is hand painted and I still have a stack of them. We are having the same kind of weather as in 2007 I wonder where the pasque flowers are blooming. —Ann—
I love your paintings of the pasque flower. I had not heard of this one before this. It's sad that growth and development take away some of the beauty of nature.
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