Friday, July 11, 2008

"Lift"

Connie Kleinjans fine art6x8. Oil on canvas panel. Sold.

I love the way that the wildflowers have this leggy quality. Their stems are slender to the point of being thread-like, but they can still lift the flower way up. I'm also really enjoying some simple glass containers I bought recently. I bought a batch last year when I was enamored of the idea of painting pictures of cut glass. Now, not so much. The reflections and patterns are complicated enough to me without facets.

This palette is also a little different for me. The colors are kind of pastel, which I don't normally do, and there's a lot of green, which I also don't always do. Interesting. But the composition and shadows are things I love. Here's the in-process picture:


It's kind of cool that you can see the shadows and stems, and some of the flowers, but not the vase. I keep finding things I like about my paintings before they're done. I'm not sure what to do with this yet, but I should figure out what that's about.

3 comments:

  1. I really like the way this one turned out.
    Lovely color and composition.

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  3. (Prior post was confusing.) Hi Katherine. Thanks for your comment. When you do something out of the ordinary, you don't always know if it worked or not, so it's nice to get a kind comment like yours.

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