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Butter Light, Yellow Lily Close-Up

A pale yellow lily is shown close up, with its wavy petals opening outward in warm sunlight. Fine rust-colored speckles dot the petals, and golden amber deepens toward the throat. Six rust-red anthers with cream centers hang on slender green filaments at the center. The background is a soft blur of green foliage.

A collector wants this lily over ten other flower prints because of the rust-red anthers. They hang with cream tips against butter-yellow petals and green filaments, and they give an otherwise soft flower a sharp, specific focal point. The frame is filled edge to edge by one bloom, lit warmly from the side so the petals glow toward the throat. It looks like a flower you stopped to study, not a stock bouquet. The palette of butter yellow, cream and moss green is easy to place in a finished room.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski