When I entered the 50-50-50 art challenge and exhibit, I submitted a painting with a little girl blowing dandelion seeds as a sample. Originally I thought I would include that painting in my series of 50. However, I haven’t gotten it back from the gallery yet and I painted it on canvas paper, so it would have required me to go down to the gallery, pick it up and find a way to adhere it to one of the masonite boards in order to use it. So I decided to repaint it, include it in the collection and pick up the other painting later.

Here is the original dandelion painting called “Floating Dandelion Seeds”:

While painting this for the second time, I decided to change it a little bit - and I’m so glad I did. The addition of the field in the background gives it more depth and I think the painting took on a dreamy quality. This painting is one of my favorites in this series so far and I call it “Carried by the wind”: