Italian Sunflowers North Light Gray Day
8"x6" oil on Belgian linen mounted on museum quality board
"If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers."
- Doug Larson
It was gray and overcast today, which makes for a nice cool silvery light in my studio. I'm still thinking about Hensche's teachings from Camille Przewodek's workshop. Cool light, warm shadows...there's a lot of wonderful color in shadows on gray days.
In the meantime, I have a commission painting started (hints....wedding, Ireland, hmm, what could be more romantic??) I head out tomorrow to go 'fetch my mom' and bring her up here to visit....so it looks like my posting will be a bit dicey for the next several days...unless I find a Panera....and a good bit of free time. I think I might have some 'chores' with mom before we head back up here. Hubby will hold down the fort up here & keep the flowers growing.
Labels: blue hydrangeas, contemporary impressionism, Cool light, green vase, Italian sunflowers, north light, palette knife oil painting, Roxanne Steed Fine Art, small oil painting, warm shadows
posted by Roxanne Steed at
4:28 PM
6 Comments:
This piece is lovely Roxanne. I really like the soft lighting you captured in the background!
These knife paintings are really great. The strokes and texture you manage are brilliant.
Thanks so much Asit, glad you like them! Texture and color are as important to me as design & composition! :-)
love how i can see the thickness in it!
Thanks 'Artist'- that's what I enjoy most about oil paint - the medium is really a visual/textural delight!
Thanks Norma! I've been enjoying painting in different light effects lately...trying more on gray days rather than just 'waiting it out for the sunny days'!!
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