Arrowleaf Balsamroot

by Omaste Witkowski

Title

Arrowleaf Balsamroot

Artist

Omaste Witkowski

Medium

Painting - Mixed Media Photo Painting

Description

Arrowleaf Balsamroot
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Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. ~Lao Tzu

"Arrowleaf Balsamroot" Canvas Print is my artistic creation of the day and I invite you to enjoy its bright yellow and orange smiles.

I believe that Joy and Light are intertwined cosmically. These flowers are raising their faces to the light of the sun and inhaling its life giving warmth.

All plants and animals exist through life energy and I feel that we are connected in this way. The joy that these flowers feel with the light of the sun is the same joy we feel in the same light. We are alive and happy under the loving gaze of our creator.

This art was created to bring you joy. Each colorful spot of light will work its way into your soul and brighten it for a moment and the longer you look the more benefit you will receive.

For those of you who want to bask in this feeling every day, bring a print home and place it in a space you can look at often. The sunshine will warm you from the inside out.

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This photograph was taken in Winthrop Wa, in Washington State. This town is located in the Pacific Northwest near the Okanogan National Forest. I was taking a hike with my family and exploring nature.

I started with a digital photograph and used a HDR process to tone map the light. Then I applied a finishing oil paint layer to add texture to the overall image. I did some tonal work to even out the colors and make them realistic to what I was seeing in nature but not excessively.

I am interested in photography as an "unusual" or "unique" image making process. In other words I enjoy starting with a photograph of an ordinary scene or subject and then I try to make it my own by adding unusual processing techniques. I hope you enjoy viewing my work as much as i enjoy creating it.
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From Wikipedia "Balsamorhiza sagittata is a species of flowering plant in the sunflower tribe of the plant family Asteraceae known by the common name arrowleaf balsamroot. It is native to much of western North America from British Columbia to California to the Dakotas, where it grows in many types of habitat from mountain forests to grassland to desert scrub. It is drought tolerant. All of the plant can be eaten.[1]
This is a taprooted perennial herb growing a hairy, glandular stem 20 to 60 centimeters tall. The branching, barky root may extend over two meters deep into the soil. The basal leaves are generally triangular in shape and are large, approaching 50 centimeters in maximum length. Leaves farther up the stem are linear to narrowly oval in shape and smaller. The leaves have untoothed edges and are coated in fine to rough hairs, especially on the undersides.

The inflorescence bears one or more flower heads. Each head has a center of long yellowish tubular disc florets and a fringe of bright yellow ray florets, each up to 4 centimeters long. The fruit is a hairless achene about 8 millimeters long. Grazing animals find the plant palatable, especially the flowers and developing seed heads.[2]
Uses

Many Native American groups, including the Nez Perce, Kootenai, Cheyenne, and Salish, utilized the plant as a food and medicine.[2]

Under the name Okanagan Sunflower, it is the official flower emblem of the city of Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada."

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April 19th, 2013

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