Can’t believe I haven’t picked a brush in earnest since the end of March. I guess sometimes if you break a routine it can be difficult to get back into it. So this weekend I tried to make up for that. I set myself the task of doing flower studies from photos and from life.
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| Grass Meadow |
I love the abstract nature of wild meadows. Nature itself has an amazing ability to create complex tapestries from randomly placed grasses and flowers, that when you look closely, really are very well designed and well balanced.
Nature has an amazing eye for flower arranging!
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| Still life in blue |
My wife has had some flowers in a vase for a while and I think it is fair to say they are on their last stalks. They do however gain a different quality as they dry out and begin to wither. Their colours drain and become faint and opaque and there is an overall opaque quality that requires soft colour mixes.
The antithesis of this are her Orchids. We have numerous displays of these beautiful flowers in the house and I took the opportunity to study them straight after painting the dying arrangement above.
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| Orchids |
These have a deep and powerful colouring and hang heavy on their stems. I used just 3 colours – purple madder, lemon yellow and colbalt blue.
