Flowers

Ouida’s style of painting flowers is generally to paint them quite thick.  Her treatment entails using layers of varnishes over an ample quantity of paint, which allows the luminescence of each color to show through. Ouida loved to grow flowers and favored roses and anemones. While traveling through the south of France she saw for the first time all the mimosa trees covering the hillsides and said she just fell in love with in all the different shades of yellow.