Gorgeous work Carol!

Thanks so much, Mel

Breathtaking! I would love to have this HUGE on the wall...what a beautiful piece!

So glad you like this, MrsRatbag. The art is available on my Fine Art America site, as a stretched canvas print in sizes up to 45" x 60", as well as other print formats.

Impressive nd very stylish an elevated piec a visual delight my friend!!

Thanks so much for your lovely comment, Shroom.

Outstanding work. God bless.

Thank you, kgb224.

Beautiful, poppies are very pretty. xx

Thanks very much, Jendellas.

In the next few weeks I'll try to catch up on some of your older images, as I have several to catch up on. But as you just posted this, I'll start with this. It does appear that you're coming to increasing 'agreement' with the alcohol part of these new works; in that you're creating remarkable, defined shapes with them, an emergent set of powerful entities or beings. Your leaves and the background here are nearly pearly in their incandescence; they're also like highly complex stained glass. There's light inside them, and it swirls beautifully as the patterns inside jewels do. In other sections of your background, you have watercolor areas (they look like true watercolors). And in others, it's like painted glass or patterns preserved under glass. It's stunning how many textures you're creating in this medium; this background area---which has leaves mingling with it, of course---is one of the most glass-like and undersea-like of your backgrounds, in many images. It has that kind of light, light from "inside" something. It just takes a special inner eye to do that with paints. I've tried for years, and never came close. And the deep dark veins are branches and leaves; but moreso they're organic forms surging through the "sea". Meaning, I don't want to limit them by calling them just "leaves," etc. You often, in your work, merge identifiable organic forms with forms of the mind and soul. And whoosh, such deep greens there...Then you have these 'pebbly' sections, which look like stones embedded into them. It just doesn't stop, the richness is all over. The freedom with which you do this is stunning: Like great improvised music, it's spontaneous in feel, and yet as if composed over long time. Ie, it's just right. And you intensify everything as you approach the flowers, as if the whole area around them is gearing itself up for the appearance of those fateful poppies. Amazing complexity. This is a very Carol image, through and through.

Tthe flowers are bursts, almost liquid in nature, billowing into the painting rather than 'appearing'. Poppies in real life can saturate one's sight, because of their deep reds; Georgia O'Keeffe understood that blasting red; she celebrated it again and again in her flower paintings. You've done that in your own voice, your own vision, just as mighty, and it's beautiful. A wash-like spread of many reds; and those darker hues (the stamens) look like they 'gushed' into the flowers and spread. (A lotta spreading here.) And the 'crop'---if I can use that word about a painting? You contained all this intensity within the frame: There's no letup, so we're brought into the heart of it all, and it radiates deep greens and deep reds and all kinds of energies. In Beethoven's last sonata, his final movement culminates in one of the most passionate passages in Western Classical music; if I had to describe it, it would be love put into notes. That's how paintings like this feel. This is one of the most beautiful pieces you've posted in recent weeks, to my eye; and it's hard to believe this is just paints: It's very, very visceral, while being very moving and emotionally flooded. Amazing work, Carol. If one every conjectured that at some point you'd "peak out," a piece like this proves that there are no boundaries for you. Explosive and beautiful art. The whole universe is there.

Mark, as always, your amazing comments are very appreciated. You honor me and my work with your words. Your comment on these poppies is particularly inspiring to me because I really struggled with this painting. Didn't quite know where I was going with it, and it is the only ink painting I've do so far that I revisited once it was dry. As you said in your comment, it is a very improvised work. I ended up painting in some more poppies and leaves and aside from bringing the art into Photoshop to make a few minor edits and to crop, it is my first total alcohol ink artwork. So it pleases me very much that you and others like this, as it inspires me to continue on my creative adventure with this new medium. I've also always loved poppies, how they appear so vibrant and bursting with life out of a green meadow, or from within a patch of green on the mountain side. I've tried to grow them many times in my mountain garden with no success, so it is quite fun to be able to paint them.

Delightfully Wonderful Work,

Thanks so much, ArtistKimberly.

Beautiful !

Thank you very much, Cyve.

This is gorgeous Carol with such vibrant color and I love the alcohol inks. Outstanding work with a great artistic flair.

Appreciate your very lovely comment, Nancy.

wow, this is wonderful! the colors are bright and beautiful and yet so realistic. well done!

Thanks so much for your lovely comment, bakapo.

Gorgeous!

Thanks so much, drifterlee.

that is very nice...the flowers are excellent....not a admirer in the bubble parts...

looks like a very nice water color...would rather have seen more realistic impressions for the flower stems and leave out the bubbles.

still...stylish and interesting