Roses 6

 

 

This is a 12" x 16" oil on a canvas I stretched, primed, and toned with yellow ochre.  The yellow ochre had provided a good color reference point on the previous paintings so I tried using it again, but really it was not a benefit this time.  What was helpful was a new stack of gray palette paper.  This was great for telling the values against a neutral gray.  I do have a large glass sheet with gray paper under it but have been a creature of habit with the white palette paper for years out of convenience. 

The bouquet from my yard got a boost from some Mother's Day roses which are tucked in on the right of the painting.  I had to fairly carefully pull out the petals on the store bought ones to get the looser effect like the home grown ones, but it worked out easily enough but may have made them go bye faster.  Enjoy!

Roses5 Daily Painting

Lots of rose painting this week.  This painting is on an 11" x 14" cotton canvas. Toning the canvas yellow ochre for the last two paintings made a big difference particularly for the white roses.  The pink roses are still causing problems in the light, particularly some hot pink ones in light and shadow (dappled light).  

Roses 3 & 4 Daily Paintings

The first rose painting was done outdoors from life in midday:

 And the second was painted in the afternoon:

Here is a video of the second:http://youtu.be/mPUC1Em6UTA

Roses 2 Daily Painting

A second daily painting of roses, this one with the time lapse.  These were photographed outside and worked from the photo with having the flowers in the window.  The first round of rose blooms is nearly over so there will be maybe one or two more paintings possible.  Enjoy!

Roses daily painting

This is a daily painting from today on an 11"x14" linen on board.  Luckily there has been a great crop of roses this year to keep working from.  Hopefully after several attempts I will be able to set something down rapidly that works on the first try. 

Ducks

This is the duck painting my brother requested.  Ideally I'd have simply bought a nice Alexander Koester painting but he wanted me to make one so I have.  In order to paint these I referenced many of Koester's works and kept them with me while I worked.  What was fascinating about his ducks was that the European Poultry Society had also looked at his paintings, along with many other artists' work, and they could identify the types of ducks.  Apparently duck 'collecting' was a fairly popular hobby among the wealthy and new varieties ended up on canvas.  While my work comes no where near Koester's gorgeous work, there is something very pleasant about painting water and ducks and it makes perfect sense how he could have painted so many ducks.  Enjoy, and paint a duck!