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Painting #11 Yellow Lilies

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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

One study down and ninety-nine to go!

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At our recent workshop, Marc Hanson suggested we do a quick painting a day for 100 days and we would see a big improvement in our skills.  Number small panels 1 to 100 and put each away as it’s finished,  When you’re done with all of them, line ’em up in order and you’ll be surprised at what you’ve learned and how much better you’ve become.  And start the next 100.

I’ve started the process.  ‘Quasi-daily’ painting also ought to produce good change, right??

Here’s #1 — based on a reference photo I took on a hot summer day by the Potomac River bridge (new +  old fragments) at Shepherdstown, WV.  In the noonday sun, folks were swimming and kayaking on the still water and walking their dogs in the rocky shallows.  My hubby and I were enjoying the cool shadowed woods along the bank.  Heaven.  The painting is too busy — should have simplified more, but it does ‘bring me back’!

Study #1, Potomac at Shepherdstown. Oil on Paper. 8×10. 2018.

The reference.

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