Lilacs Are Home

Mark's client flew in from Washington State and handed him a list of flowers with a rule attached: the lilacs are home, and everything else is a place she's lived. So the lilacs sit high on the thigh in soft purple and the rest runs downhill from there. A wood violet, an orange chrysanthemum, a red carnation, a magenta rhododendron, and a rose. The chrysanthemum is the biggest bloom and the warmest, and it sits dead center, which keeps a piece carrying this many colors from scattering. Three days in August 2026 got it this far and the estimate runs to four. By Mark Wade.

By Mark Wade at Eden Body Art Studios.

Styles: Realism, Painterly.