This is the first floral that I have painted in awhile.  Lately I have been doing many petroglyph and bamboo painting so it was a nice to come back to painting these Birds of Paradise.  The leaves are somewhat abstracted in a pattern design with varying warm colors.  I wanted to blend some elements of realism with parts of pattern and abstraction.

Because of how well this piece turned out I plan on making a limited edition giclee of this painting and should be available in late January 2008.  Originals of a limited edition often become quite valuable and this painting is an important step in my career.  It is bridging my floral paintings of the past with the geometric elements that are part of my current petroglyph and bamboo paintings.