For my next painting I decided to channel friend Helen Gallagher with some BIG flowers, painted from life from a bouquet a friend sent me for Mother’s Day.  Haven’t ever done any large scale, straight-on flowers.  I don’t think I captured the color of the shadows very well.  I’m also not crazy about the composition, but it was a good experiment.  I used the palette knife a fair amount, but not for everything. . . .

I painted from life rather than the photo below — which I snapped to record what I was generally looking at while painting.

Yellow Lilies. Oil on Primed Arches Oil Paper. 8×10.

Reference Photo