An amazing God created this

This is a beautiful and usual flower. They are rather common around South Florida but taking the time to draw and paint one made me appreciate them so much more. I looked it up on wikipedia and found this little bit of interesting information.

"They are pollinated by sunbirds, which use the spathe as a perch when visiting the flowers; the weight of the bird on the spathe opens it to release the pollen onto the bird's feet, which is then deposited on the next flower it visits."

Pretty cool, eh?

Yes, they are blue.

Acrylic paint is so fun! Whenever the "one shot at it" pressure of watercolor gets to you, get out the acrylics and just paint until you're happy. Blue buffalo grazing in a yellow field make me happy.