Easter Iris

Here's the 5th painting in Iris Collection. I call it Easter Iris because I finished on Easter Sunday, a day before I had to hang the paintings in the Gallery. As I was framing them I started to go slower and slower and realized soon afterward that I was getting sick with the flu. However, before I quit to lie down, I looked at the painting again and thought how much of a coincidence that it was in the shape of a cross and on Easter. Other things began to stand out to me too. The flower is purple like royalty, the leaves are like the thorns on Jesus's "crown", the top petal looks like linen and like an empty tomb, and the red, yellow and orange color around the flower is like a choir of thousands singing with triumphant voices that "He is Risen!" Yes, He is risen indeed!