"Desert Rose" --- SOLD

I know I keep saying this, but roses are freakin' hard to paint! The next two are going to use a different light on the rose. The light I used on this one shined ... shone? ... right through the petals making the whole thing glow. While pretty, it made it even more challenging.

"A Rose Note" --- SOLD

This one was more difficult to paint than it maybe looks. Getting the shadow to line up just right with the background stripes ... and then the rose on top of that ... yikes. But I am really pleased with how it turned out ... especially the glass (it's simple but you can tell what it is!). I painted several more small roses today as I had the whole day to paint and didn't feel like doing a large one. It's a good thing too because by the end of today the roses were done for. I'll be posting them going forward - they show how I experimented with techniques in rose painting. It was really fun!

"Distressed" --- SOLD

Let me just state for the record that roses are tough to paint (if you want a challenge, paint a rose). I tried a million compositions before I found this one. The shadow really spoke to me, and the color of the rose against this background. This evening I stamped more fabric. I still haven't tackled the batik, even though I have all the materials. I have to admit - I'm a bit daunted by it. I know once I get started I'll be fine ... but it's the getting started I'm having trouble doing. : )

"Unreal Tomatoes" & "Back to Back" --- SOLD

I did these 3 paintings last week. When I started the tomatoes above they looked fine. I started with the most saturated oranges and went darker. When I started in on the background suddenly the tomatoes seemed unbelievably glowy. (yes, glowy is a word) They WERE fairly lit, but perhaps not quite this much. I then moved onto this one...



...and re-learned a valuable lesson. On days when I do a large painting first, I tend to feel a bit ... spent ... for lack of a better word, and any small ones I do afterwards are generally less inspired. : ) The painting below is the one I did before these 2. It's a bit more traditional than what I generally do, but the cheese was begging to be painted from this angle, and everything else just fit into place around it. I am including 2 details pictures below it.




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