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| The Piper's Sunflower |
This painting had a different approach than usual. It is 11" x 14" oil on canvas and the subject is the popular sunflower. This one I would sit and look at waiting at my son's bagpipe lesson and just love this oversized drooping seed head with side lighting late in the day. What was different was the raw sienna underpainting and then the rub-out with the cloth. The video link below shows the process. I did use real turpentine, hence the gloves, plus the window was open and fans running to avoid the fumes. The underpainting was quite nice, especially where the rubbed out portions were because the pigment gets caught in the canvas texture. For medium I used Liquin's Impasto for fun which gets the paint fluffy like butter and sugar when you're making chocolate chip cookie dough, and adds some final texture. The blue background is the thickest I've made in quite a while.
Seems everyone has to make a sunflower painting at least once.
