Monday, August 11, 2014

"Peony Glories" (oil on linen; 10" x 10") sold


sold


I took the reference photo for the painting at the Anne of Green Gables Museum in Prince Edward Island.  Yes, they were blooming in early July!  They were past the peak, but in my painting you can't tell that.

The first step of the transparent underpainting is finished.  


The opaque layer is down.  Now my task is to make sense of the sculptural form of the flowers.  It is not an easy job because the values are so close.  All I have to go by are the close warm/cool temperature variations.


Backlit, sun-struck flowers are beginning to emerge.

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