Purple & White Irises

So here are the keys players in this painting!  Certainly wasn't the odorless turpinoid! I'm on vacation in Sedona AZ.

I love using these transparent colors!  Painted directly onto my white gesso surface they have a glow to them that you just can't mix.  So that is my little tip for today.  

P.S.

"A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people." ~Degas~

Summer Rose

Here is a copy of my reference photo!  I have so many more to paint!  So much to paint so little time!  Hope you have a great day! 

Summers Friend

I have been thinking of painting a hummingbird for so long it's been driving me crazy!! I love watching them eat and play in my backyard.  They tease each other and chase larger birds!  This little guy makes me happy!  Hopefully I don't sound too crazy actually writing this.

Have a great day!

Friendly Faces

There is a block in below!  I started by under painting the whole board with viridian green and transparent red oxide.  Then I used a white with a touch of transparent yellow oxide, and touches of viridian and purple lake to block in the whites.  I try to make warm whites!  It's hard you have to keep comparing with the surrounding colors!  It's a balancing act this painting game.  Anyhow as always I mean to take more pictures to show the process.  Hope you have a great weekend!

Sunflowers & Stock

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During these busy summer days I enjoy a little me time painting at the kitchen counter easel!  With kids constantly asking for snacks, and things to build, or do all day it's a good break to paint my little daily painting!  Don't get me wrong I wouldn't have it any other way.  Summertime is special.

Hope your are having a great summer!  Happy painting!

Time Well Spent

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Decided to take on the "orchid challenge", something I made up... there isn't really an orchid challenge.  

Anyhow, I was given this beautiful orchid for Mothers Day and I look at it and I kept telling myself to paint it and now that I have, I am full of ideas on how I want to capture it in a painting.  I am playing with the abstract in the background, to offset the structured Orchid.  I really quite enjoy this process and will most likely try it out with my other favorite flowers.  Hope you enjoy, and happy painting!

P.S.  "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."  George Bernard Shaw

Blooming Bells

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I am not sure what these are?  They look like blue bells... I hope they are.  They were in with a bouquet I bought from TJ's , and I really liked them a lot so I painted just the stem.  Plus I love how the green vase picks up light!  Oh, how I love flowers.  Hope you enjoy this snippet 

Of Gods creation.