Friday 6 July 2018

#351 'Sunflowers' 12x12"


A busy week, hard to keep on top of all the artists jobs to do, including this one!

I am lucky that my Mum supplies me with great flowers to paint, like these :-)

I decided to paint outside again as the natural sunlight works well on a still life especially flowers. I started early so there was only a little patch of sun on the lawn and had to move the flowers at least 5 times chasing the sun around the garden! But it worked out nicely.


I didn't paint the colours of the table or the shape as I wanted it soft and undefined - making the flowers as focus.
I used thick paint towards the end as the subject seams to lend itself to oils and juicy brush strokes.
Click on this close up to see the mark making.

2 comments:

  1. Lovely, sunny, loose painting, I am observing this one closely and will attempt something similar with 40 lashes!

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    1. Thank you and look forward to hearing about your Sunflower painting!

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