Poppies

12x12" Oil Sketch on Canvas 

I have always loved poppies. In the spring my Grandma and I would walk through the dirt road center of the "town" of Elsey, Mo and red waves of poppies that the previous generations had planted carpeted entire road banks in brilliant red as the elderly ladies who still lived there came out on their porches to say hi and chat. Poppies always bring a glow of happy memories for me, as bright as their petals.