Saturday, May 20, 2017

Peach Rose

We have had a lot of nice days for plein air painting. Last Thursday I went out with Jessica to paint in the Bentonsport rose garden. Two paintings, one a keeper the other not. It is easy to blame the painting panel; this one started with a orange pink ground on a canvas panel. The other was a white gessoed hardboard panel painted with a ground that seemed to soak up the paint. I could not get the value range I wanted or maybe it was me overworking the painting.
9" x 12" oil on canvas panel - sold

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  1. How beautiful!!! Love the peachy colours!!

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    1. Thanks for commenting. That color is what attracted me to this scene.

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  2. The way you treated the foliage and mulch around it is nice too. It supports the reds and oranges well.

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    1. Thanks, Mulch does seem to lend itself to abstraction and subdued colors.

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  3. This is just really lovely, Carlene. Nice job on form and depth of field.

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