Bouquet painting ... again!

Drawing and/or painting flowers and bouquets is a love of mine. 

This is a still life, from real life, that was a fun project. 

charcoal sketch

from

 this bouquet 👇

I felt like doing another bouquet painting
and i just happened to have this little

Mother's Day one. (Thank you Matt! 💓)

I had a board already made with gesso 

and some acrylic iridescent gold

splashed on it ... I think the gold was leftover from

painting a frame ... ?

Anyway, it looked like the size i wanted,

so I began to sketch (with charcoal first). Again I didn't think to take

more progress photos ... 

This one progress shot while painting indicates where 

those funny little buds are in the bouquet. 

I don't know what they are, do you?

I love the background iridescence in certain light.

These flowers, from Mother's Day ... are still holding strong, 

with a bit of trimming. 

So, when was that? Over 2 weeks ago! 

Amazing!

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Dusk Was Falling      11 9/16 x 9 inches    oil on prepared panel

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The House Next Door

the house next door (b&w)

Hello!

I have been working on various things; 

a portrait commission, and my DOR paintings 

and just wanted a warm-up to start the day earlier this week.

This little painting was the result. 

I didn't take too many progress photos, but here are a couple.

This is the photo of my view of the house next door 

(from the sofa) ... good neighbors!

I found a nice panel already prepared and sketched the main

areas with charcoal and fixed it with the Spectrafix fixative 

for charcoal, and pastel.

This was my challenge, to see if I could do

a painting of this view, and actually

like the result.

I must say, that I think it turned out pretty well.

One happy happening, was that my plant on the sill,

a lipstick plant Aeschynanthus,

 had just popped out a quad of lipstick tube blooms!

 Here is the result of my efforts ... as you may have

noticed from the photo, 

there are many more alder branches

than what I painted in. 

Who wants to go crazy? I think it gave

the idea of alder branches with snow on them, so - 

no going batty trying to put them all (or even many) in!

The House Next Door   13.5 x 12 inches oil on prepared Masonite

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Happy Painting!

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Oh and Happy Easter!

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