The painting "Lotus flowers in the Afternoon" oil

The painting "Lotus flowers at Noon" is my recollection of the first "Thai spring". Spring is in the Thailand lush bloom trees, although, of course, they're blooming all year round, but still...

this celebration of life in nature i have ever seen anywhere, ever. Giant trees 30 meters in diameter covered with a red, yellow, white flowers.

At the same time, begin to blossom and lotuses, which then bloom all summer. april in thailand is very hot, the hottest of the year. the temperature in chiang mai reached every day 38, but then at the end of april the rains began, which slightly eased the situation...

there, in the city of chiang mai near our house was the temple pond (the pond at a small buddhist chapel, so to speak) it was planted with lotuses.

every day after the rain i went with a camera to a lotus pond and did not get tired to photograph them with rain drops. washed, cleaned,...

it was an incredible sensation!!!! and i was amazed at not only the beauty of the flowers but also the leaves, which seem to have been collected all the colors of the spectrum! they were green, emerald. brown, burgundy..... different degrees of freshness or vagsele leaves painted them in different colors...

in this painting i wanted to convey the brightness of the lotuses amid 38-degree heat, moist air, saturated with scents of the tropics... all shades and colors full of energy shimmer into one another...