Red Poppies Canvas Print

On a wine tasting trip to the Sonoma Wine Region, we stopped by a nursery to "smell some roses"! The intense colors in this poppy caught-my-eye, so I had to take a photograph.
This painting was done using artist quality acrylic paints on 300 lb Arches watercolor paper. The paint was applied watercolor style, using multiple layers of very dilute paint for the flower. The background was done more traditionally, using fluid acrylic paint with very little dilution.

About the Artist, Mike Robles I am a senior artist and a native Californian. I was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from Carlmont High School, Belmont in 1958. I graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 1963 with a BS in Physical Sciences. One week after graduating, I married Jane and this year we’ll be celebrating our 50th anniversary. My career as an analytical chemist for GE Nuclear Energy started in 1963 at the Hanford Engineering Works in Eastern Washington. In 1969, my family (wife and two sons) and I moved back to California and settled in Livermore. I continued working for GE for most of my 40 year career. I was exposed to art at a young age by my extremely gifted artist mother and step-father. But, I...