Perhaps the final flower painting of the spring? Wondering why I continue to dive into full-blown, sweat-it-out paintings when perhaps I should be painting sweet sketches. So often the greatest beauty of a painting is found in its initial strokes. Anyway. It is what it is. My first try at painting tulips ended in a wreck – stripey tulips that while beautiful, opened their petals wide and spun around every day. I tried ice in the water (to no avail). Then, I tried some different ones that were much more placid, and seemed to want to be painted.
This is painted over “good karma day”. The third image shows a ghost image of that, and a ghost image of the first attempt at painting the uncooperative tulips (note: often being uncooperative is a very good thing). A very eery, ghost of a painting!
Struggled with this one more than most. Found it hard to stay loose. Worked in probably 4-hour shifts over the week. Interesting to paint so many reds – impossible to match the color of red in the sun. Will I head outside soon? Back to the print studio?……
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- 16″ x 20″ oil, Open-Close
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- detail
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- Early state, after wipeout – ghost image
I like painting over things..it appears you do too…good work.
Oh and …I bestow upon you the Lemonade award, go to my blog for details!
Well, I like lemonade! Thanks Celeste.