During this heat wave (due to end by Thursday 6/26, I hope), I've hunkered down in my air-conditioned studio. Prior to temperatures going well above 85 F, I picked a handful of roses from our garden, knowing they'd provide a range of shapes/colors for a quick watercolor. Rather than replicate the dining room table-top where my reference photo was taken, I chose a more dreamy alternative that wouldn't overpower the fragile appearance of the flowers. I chose a limited palette of transparent or semi-transparent colors for this painting. W&N Permanent Rose; W&N Sap Green; W&N Transparent Yellow; W&N Winsor Orange; Holbein Opera. I did use a semi-opaque color for the leaves/stems –– W&N Indanthrene Blue. I used this also for the background mixed with sap green plus a lot of water. After pencilling in a basic outline, I painted the background and allowed it to dry completely before doing the roses and the vase. Details about how to purchase this painting are...
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