I started out painting an Amaryllis but when it wasn't going too well I painted a still life of Cassia flowers from a shrub at the gallery courtyard just as a back up. The Amaryllis eventually came around and was taken in the exchange today. Both oils are pictured below.
The Amaryllis painting has a metallic gold background that I was trying out after looking at a lot of advertisments of a major Klimt show. I really didn't realize where that impetus came from until I looked back at some blogs I follow and saw all that gold in his work.
