Maybe not quite a worm's eye view of bluebonnets, but a different way to show them

As a Texas landscape painter, it's almost a sin not to paint bluebonnets, but I try to find different ways to show these beauties. While "normal" bluebonnets are a foot tall or less, the Big Bend desert variety grow up to four feet tall, making them show-stoppers. Here, while an entire mesa was covered with blue, I chose to show only a cluster shooting into the sky in the immediate foreground. I lay on my belly to take my reference photo-- but only after carefully checking for snakes, scorpions and hidden cactus. It's hard work, but somebody's gotta do it! "Tall Texas Blues" is one of my first bluebonnet landscapes, a 9" x 12" soft pastel (on Kitty Wallis Museum Grade paper, an old standby I no longer use because they quit manufacturing it).