I love the last of the years flowers in Autumn. The last hurrah of the garden, often the most beautiful. I take many photos of flowers whenever I can, to remember, to savor their beauties. I love to pull over and look at gardens, and try to grow some of my own. Flowers bring me joy in in instant. It brings me the wonder of the miracles of God. Flowers lift my spirits and help me refocus on the gifts of God. Little reminders that God is here and amazing in his creations. This is a digital painting, not a photo or a manipulated photo. I used an electronic graphics tablet and a wireless stylus pen, my Wacom, and Corel's art software, Painter X. I hold the stylus as I would a pen, paintbrush, marker, pastel, chalk, etc. I choose the mediums, brush sizes, shapes, & colors. I decide everything as if I were using the real materials. I know there are ways to auto paint by clicking an effect in some programs. I choose to do the drawing, painting myself. I love the challenge of working the stylus and mediums to paint works such as this floral. It can take me hours and days to complete some of these works, even thought there is no setting up or cleaning up of materials. I love the no dry time as well. I can mix mediums you can not with real ones to create unusual textures, and effects. I am always experimenting. Sometimes I use multiple software in my experiments to get the results I do. My styles change as well as my subjects, but florals are always a favorite of mine. I hope you enjoy them. I included a close up so that you can see more of the details of the brush strokes. These small screen images often make some of my works appear like a photo, but this is not. I often do the works in very large sizes, and have to reduce the image file in order to get them uploaded. Enjoy and God Bless!