I'm not sure how, but somehow a light went off in my head, and I got the sunflowers which were not originally in the Hereford photo from another photo and put the two references together.  It brings a different 'look' to this piece which I love.  

6x12 inches  Hereford with Sunflowers

 

This piece was the first study for someone who commissioned a large painting.  For those I do small studies until I hit one that works, which I will then paint large.  The small ones I do just become available paintings so I don't charge for them.  He thought, and I agreed, that it would be too similar to the other one he had bought.  So I put it aside in only the base of charcoal, sealed, where it has remained waiting to be painted.  I'm glad that I did wait, otherwise I would have put in just a plain background, maybe a gradation, which sometimes is great, but this is one time that I am really happy that I didn't.

 

 

This painting is available.