Today I started working on a painting of hydrangeas and crepe myrtle in a tall vase. However, I changed it to all hydrangeas. The painting is based on a photo I took of the flowers Joey brought to Larisa's for my birthday party last week. He had picked the flowers from his yard.
I was determined to really LOOK at the photo and paint it true to the colors. The white hydrangeas had a green undertone. However, in the photograph below, they look gray rather than greenish. However, they don't really look like white hydrangeas.
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| "Birthday Bouquet" oil on 12x16 linen panel, August 2019 |
Tomorrow I will go back to landscapes. I'm just not good with flowers. Now the wildflowers paintings I've done have been okay because the flowers are at a distance, and so there is no detail needed. However, close up flowers are another matter. I'm sure I will do some more fine-tuning of this painting before I put it away permanently.
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