Floral Inspired Butterflies 2

Floral Inspired Butterflies 1

Continuing with the coloured butterfly theme from objects around the home I looked for flower seed packets and old seed catalogues and created the following:

Vase With Red Flowers - Van Burns

Acrylic on 16 x 20 canvas painted by Brendan Burns.I have painted a few copies of Van Gogh paintings, and this was painted in his style as a two hour study during a themed dinner party at the Barker Play House in Providence. I was playing a French Impressionist Role and was asked to paint a vase of flowers in the style of Van Gogh. This is what I came up with painting on site with the vase in front of me - the painting was auctioned off at the annual fund raising gala.

Please check out my other Van Gogh paintings

Vase with 14 Sunflowers - Van Gogh Copy

Copy of Van Gogh's Fourteen Sunflowers in a Vase - painted in acrylic on canvas 24 x 30 by Brendan Burns.

This is one of my favourite paintings by Van Gogh. I was in the National Gallery in London and decided to study it closely and paint my own copy. I painted it in very thick impasto style squeezing paint directly onto the canvas from the tube - this gives a heavy textured effect like that in the original. I added some heavy texture paste to the paint to make it even thicker and pushed paint around with the wooden end of my brushes - I finished the painting in just over one day - Van Gogh I believe painted it in a day - it was his fourth picture of sunflowers he painted in 1888.

I signed it Van Burns - the name I will now use for any future study of Van Gogh's work that I paint. There will be more - I love that style

Flowers in July

Study of summer flowers painted in acrylic on cavas 30 x 30 by Brendan Burns.
What I like most about this painting, apart from the rich colours, is that when I displayed it outdoors at the Wickford Art Festival the honey bees kept bouncing off the canvas - they were diving into the painting making me believe they mistook them for real.