Artichoke

Title:  Artichoke

Medium: Acrylics and ink on 61 LB 11 Mil card stock

Size: 7 x 5

Date:  9/30/20 

Sandra Corey

Etsy Shop

I like playing with how far I can push an object away from its recognizable reality without loosing its connection to what it is.  For Artichoke it was simplifying its form and pushing its colors into turquoises.  

Before I settled on this version I made many studies, from realistic to more simplified and from more accurate color portrayals to various unusual color schemes.   In the end I came back to this simplified one, which was also the first version.

In the process of studying them,  I also became intrigued with artichoke plants; how their petals are arranged and the way they balance their bulblike shapes on the tops of a comparatively narrow-looking stems.   I believe they are a variety of thistle and in the aster family.