Zentangle Poppy Linda Rupard

I am working on a Bluebonnet painting but meanwhile I have this small Zentangle painting with a red poppy. I cant get true color in a photo, I guess it is too small. We found this hill of Bluebonnets out on the Willow Loop near Fredericksburg on our Bluebonnet Trails trip. You can almost see where the blue color is going to be up the hill & make a wave of blue, almost there. I wanted to stay for more color to pop but have to come home sometime so I can paint.

But it was so nice to be able to see & smell these beautiful blooms. I found Indian Blankets, Black Eyed Susan & Indian Paintbrush in patches with some of the white Poppies in the Bluebonnets out that way , not many yet but they are coming along & just know it is going to be full bloom soon.


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Fredericksburg Blooms Linda Rupard

This was a so very pretty to see all the angels & crosses surrounded by Bluebonnets . Whole cemetery was full of Bluebonnets. This is a cemetery in Fredericksburg. Top photo was a wild poppy found among the Bluebonnets near Baby's Head cemetery. I found the Butterfly near this flower so it got on the flower to be photographed too. Now to get some of these photos into more paintings. Time to paint.

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Texas Blues

I did a little research on the TX Bluebonnet & found some interesting facts about them. Blue Bonnets covered the wild TX prairies. Indians have some fascinating tales about them. The early day Spanish Priest gathered the seeds from them & threw seeds around their Mission's.

This practice caused people to think the Blue Bonnets came from Spain. This can't be true because 2 of the prominent Blue Bonnet's can be found no where else in the world except TX
Click to contact the artist for more information about this painting. It is the TX flower & includes 5 different species of Blue Bonnets. That would explain why a different Blue Bonnet was on an older TX map & the Blue Bonnet that I was familiar with when I was a kid back in the good old days. Blue Bonnets are a trade mark of TX. The Blue Bonnet that I knew was really in the shape of a lady's hat. If you have never seen these fields of beautiful blue it is worth the trip.