By Thursday, the temperature hit 90's! Prudently we painted inside, myself choosing a small bouquet of roses as the subject. As it turned out, this painting turned out to be the most difficult project of the workshop.
My teacher, Danni Dawson, is a master of contemporary realism, renowned for her luminous portraiture and exquisite still life. She showed us how to paint the rose, gooseberry, strawberry, melon, and glass bottle. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't paint like her; I simply did not have her patience of painting a petal by petal!
I brought the roses home, hoping to finish the painting. The flowers died in a refrigerator. The thing to do, as Danni assured us many times, was to paint the way I painted. So I did. Using the image on my smart phone as the reference, I made finishing touches on "Rose Sprigs".
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| The beginning of the painting |
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| Many steps later. |
