Vincent's  Sunflowers

No one painted sunflowers like Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh loved the color yellow.  When he moved to Arles, France he lived in a yellow house.  He loved the sunflowers that grew nearby.  He would get up every morning and pick a hand full of flowers that he would later spend hours painting.

Another artist tried to get Van Gogh to paint using dots, but Van Gogh instead painted using dashes and swirls.  He sometimes put the paint directly on his canvas using his pallet knife.  He used the paint so thickly that he had to buy more paint.  There were times that he had to choose between eating and painting.