Tea For Two, 9 x 12 inches, oil on linen
Another Rose painting. I'm finding out just how tricky it is to paint roses. I work with tight values normally, but this really requires even more control with values and saturation. What a challenging exercise! Sargent was right when he said painting flowers will do you good (I'm paraphrasing) because of the precision such exercises require.
The higher saturation in the shadow areas of of the blooms allows for a sense of translucency and luminosity. It's amazing what a little shift in color will do to the overall effect. I feel like I'm just learning what painting is all about!
The higher saturation in the shadow areas of of the blooms allows for a sense of translucency and luminosity. It's amazing what a little shift in color will do to the overall effect. I feel like I'm just learning what painting is all about!
This is a quick study from a photo. The moody overcast sky attracted my attention, and this sense of openness and anxiousness (anticipating rain?) was what I was investigating. The colors are too photographic to be interesting, but I see some potential in the treatment of the sky. It needs to be painted bigger too, in order to really get into colors and textures of the landscape - something I think would be necessary since there's so little of "active" areas in this composition. Hmmm...
6 comments:
Wow, what nice work! (I think former illustrators make great painters!)
This project has generated some really great work, and sounds like some lessons were learned about flowers as well. Thanks for all your input on my blogs, it really helps.
Thanks Kathleen~ There are a lot of us out there, aren't there? One thing I can tell you, I'm finding this stuff a lot harder than my former occupation!
Hey Michael, yep, always a lesson to be learned with every painting. (sometimes a lesson i DON'T wanna learn)
Great stuff Terry! I actually really like the empty road panorama.
Thanks Craig! Empty road is a theme that I come back to time and again. It's so loaded with nuances, ya know? Well, to me it does, anyway.
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