Staying cool

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 this painting (framing options, etc.) will be available on my website soon. 



Garden Offering
10" x 14" unframed




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