Thanksgiving Cactus
by Lois Bryan
Title
Thanksgiving Cactus
Artist
Lois Bryan
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Art / Hand Painted Digital Art - Photography Based Digital Hand Painting
Description
Atop an old weathered side table in a corner of the room sits a glorious pink and mauve Thanksgiving cactus. Always known in my family as a Christmas cactus, I have, over the years, accumulated more than one of these guys. The original, from my mom who passed in the year 2000, is still going strong. But neither Mom's, nor any of my others, can seem to wait until Christmas to show off!
A little detective work gave me the answer. Technically known as the Schlumbergera truncata, my Thanksgiving Cacti (cactusses?) burst into happy and eager bloom weeks before their counterparts, the Christmas Cactus. That, and the shape of the leaves ... leaf segments, called “phylloclades,” are serrated or “toothed,” with pointy spines; with 2-4 on each side ... are the clues that finally identified my guys as the Thanksgiving variety.
Whatever they are, I'm thankful to have them ... and to have had the honor of enjoying them for so many years.
Image painted by hand, digitally, and influenced by and loosely based on my own original photo using Corel Painter 2019, a Wacom tablet, the art pen stylus and a variety of digital brushes.
Not created using Artificial Intelligence / AI.
Fine art purchases of this image will not include a watermark, and if I may make a recommendation ... it will look its very best on the fine art paper choice of "picture rag."
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November 16th, 2021
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Comments (28)
Robyn King
Congratulations Lois your gorgeous artwork is being featured in 500 Views Share Group & Shared:-) Please take a moment to add your beautiful art to our archives in the message area and have a wonderful day!
Jenny Revitz Soper
CONGRATULATIONS! It is my great pleasure to FEATURE your artwork on the homepage of The Artists Group,11/25/2021! You are invited to post it in the Group's Features Discussion thread for posterity or any other thread that fits!
Lyric Lucas
Congratulations, your creative and unique art work is Featured on the homepage of the "Out Of The Ordinary 1 A Day" group! 11/24/21 l/f/pin
Lois Bryan replied:
Thanks so much, Lyric, for the feature, and for the promotions!! i have tweeted the group.
Gary F Richards
Outstanding composition, lighting, shading, color and artwork! F/L Congratulations on your features!
Deborah Strategier
Lois, Such a beautiful piece! Congratulations on the feature on Artists Buzz! L/F
Laurel Adams
CONGRATULATIONS! Your work has been featured in the Home Page of The ARTIST BUZzz Group! You are cordially invited to POST image embed links for this distinction to the #8. GAs Features Archive Thread in the discussion tab. Thank you for your glimpse of beauty! WOnDERful, Lois…mine is readying to bloom now too!..L
Lois Bryan replied:
Many thanks for the honor, Laurel!! I have added the image and tweeted the group!!!
Angela Davies
Wonderful digital hand painting and a gorgeous Thanksgiving cactus, mine only has two or three buds at present but in a couple more weeks will be doing it's part to brighten up the holiday season as your image is doing! LF
Lois Bryan replied:
Thanks Angela ... over on FB I added some snaps of each of my three. I think this one truly is a Thanksgiving cactus, the other two according to what I read and described here, must be Christmas guys. They are in bud stage, not blooming like crazy. So I think the mystery is solved!! 😁
Mary Timman
How pretty this must be in your home! Congrats on your Features also...it really is beautiful brush work...I love it! L/F
Randy Rosenberger
Hurrah! Your lovely piece of art from your portfolio of beautiful artistic pieces, has been chose to appear as a feature on the homepage of the Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery Group of Fine Art America. I am proud that you have chosen to be a member of our family of friends and fine artists. You will be featured more than most groups feature works, as I change up and work on my homepage each and every day. It is an honor to have you as an active member of our group. Thanks for sharing your lovely pieces of artwork with us.
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