Blog Birthday!

On this date, 14 years ago, I started this blog. It has been my art journal.
To those of you who read this blog, thank you for reading!

 

I love the Peruvian Lily, Alstroemeria. I buy the bouquets 

all the time lately. They last & last.

When I want to warm up for painting, they are handy to grab

and set-up in a still life. I can at least get this painting started before 

thinking about and readying for the "main" painting. I may finish it,

or it will just sit and wait.

I must love them, because I just realized today that 

I had made three paintings of these flowers in the last few months.

Here is how I went about this recent

painting and then at the end I will 

show a pic of the three paintings together.

This sketch 👆 is just for me to get the hang of the vase,

and the main blossom.

This also is just messing around with the charcoal 

to get my mind into the flowers.

This is a teensy thumbnail sketch for the composition. 

I had decided to use a cradled panel my husband made me that was 18 x 12 inches, 

 ready with two coats of PVA and an oil underpainting.

I set the vase on a chair and was

looking down at the still life.

I forgot to take more progress photos! 

Here is one partway thru ... 

the sign (arm's length) was for another painting I was doing.

The vase is made of pottery 

with an awesome gold glaze on the rim.

A close up

Alstroemerias I I I    oil on cradled panel   18 x 12 x 1 inch

L to R

Alstroemerias    oil on canvas  16 x 12 (Oct 2021)

Alstroemerias II     oil on Multimedia Artboard  10 x 8 (Dec 2021)

Alstroemerias III  18 x 12 (Jan 2022)

Think there may be a little touching up to do on this last

painting, but i thought for my blog's anniversary

I'd post this.

Thanks so much for reading 

and if you blog, happy blogging!

... as always, 

Happy Painting!

💚