#229 Morning Flowers

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I almost never paint in the mornings, but on Sunday my daughter was occupied and I had a little time before church so I decided to get started on this one.  It was nice to paint while I was still kind of fresh in the day!  Ha!  The flowers were tricky.  I started with them and wiped them 3 times before getting it like they are now.

7x5 inch oil on gessobord  Email me at suitabledesigns425@gmail.com

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#218 Pops of Sun

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I really enjoyed painting this piece.  I bought the vase last Friday and I was very excited to paint it.  Isn't it pretty?  I thought it looked great with the sunflowers I purchased at Sprouts yesterday.  I set this still life up around 8pm last night and felt like it needed to be bigger than my 6x6 or 7x5 inch panels.  I found a canvas I purchased last summer and decided to give it a shot.  I haven't painted on canvas in almost a year. It was different than the gessobords I've been painting on but I enjoyed it more than I did in the past.  Ever since the workshop I attended in May, I've been experimenting.  I've felt kind of lost because of it...still do, but I think that experimenting is so important and I trust that it will lead to good places in the future.  For this painting I experimented by using canvas.  I also blocked in the whole painting by thinning down my paints a little with mineral spirits before going back in to add the details.  For the details, I used a little medium in my paint.  I painted the light and more saturated parts of each object first and then the parts in the shadow.  I noticed with the canvas, it was harder for me to make distinct brush marks.  I probably need to apply thicker paint to make that happen?  I still have 2 other "large" canvases from last year that I want to give a try.

16x 12 inch oil on canvas. Email me at suitabledesigns425@gmail.com

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#214 Second Chances

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I painted these flowers pretty quickly last week.  I tried to just have fun and not overthink it too much.  My husband said the white flowers look more like lights than flowers, but I kind of like how they turned out!  I'm always trying to paint this dark blue background in my still lives...sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't!  I like how that part turned out this time.  After I painted it I realized the shape of the one flower on the right is a little awkward.  Oh well!

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#197 Yellow Daisies

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I think this will be the last painting from the bouquet I purchased last week.  Wanted to do something a little more dramatic for this one.  It was actually a lot of fun to paint.  I used a piece of cardboard next to the light source to push the background into deeper shadow.  I also experimented with my brushwork a little though you can't tell as well in the photo.  

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#196 Daisy Bouquet

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Another painting from the bouquet I bought at Sprouts last week.  Some of the flowers didn't make it, but I have a few that are still hanging on!  I really tried to focus on values in this painting and keeping it simple...though it took longer than I thought it would!  I'm struggling this week.  I still feel so wiped.  I think I'm either fighting something off or just have bad allergies right now.  It's also the end of the ministry year (I work part time in college ministry).  Makes sense I would be feeling tired at the end, plus I already started my summer assignment for work.  I just have not had much energy for painting...and another very busy week in front of me.  Hoping to hit a groove again soon.  

6x6 inch oil on gessobord  Email me at suitabledesigns425@gmail.com

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