Newly Finished Painting
I finished the painting I started last weekend. I made a few changes from the sketch below. Early in the painting I eliminated the dark band at the top of the flower because that would have made the composition top heavy with out adding ballast at the bottom. I could have done that, but that was not the solution I wanted for this particular painting. I make up the colors as I go, but I have been trying to use lower chroma colors in these paintings I’ve done since the beginning of the year. Grays and near grays - very low chroma colors - are interesting to use. Low chroma colors look higher chroma when placed in conjunction with grays. A gray area can appear to have a hue if placed in conjunction with another medium chroma color. Unintentionally, a lot of violets and greens dominate these paintings. As this painting came to a close, I made the background a slightly yellow green, the near complement of the red violet circles in the flower. I made the negative space in the flower yellowish, the complement of the blue violet circles in the flower.
Tulip Variation #28, 40 x 30, acrylic on polyester canvas
Hey, I just ended up on your blog some how. But I just want to complement you on your tremendous work. I love it!
Molly, thank you. This blogging is new to me. It is very much like being at a large party where you don’t know anybody else. Every self introduction is “random.”
Chuck, you are a natural at this. And that shouldn’t come as a surprise to me. Edna
i agree with you!