Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Mary's Petunias

Seems that I'm still fooling around with this blogging stuff and my original post that accompanying the photo of Mary's Petunias is floating around in cyberland somewhere. This is one of my favorite floral paintings and belongs to my friend, Mary Grabbe of Noonday, Texas. It was painted while studying with a premier Dallas, Texas artist, Naomi Brotherton. She had us execute a painting with no drawing underneath and this was quite a challenge for a pen&ink artists who always does a rather detailed drawing before a painting...ME. Anyway, I loved the way it turned out. I wet the paper thoroughly, dropped in color wherever I did not want the white of the petunias to appear and went from there. There is much negative painting going on here and after many times of drying a wash and rewetting and dropping in more color here and there, the petunias magically appeared. Negative painting is a method of bringing your stars forward that I hope to persue in future paintings...it is really rewarding.
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6 comments:

  1. Doris JoaApril 23, 2009 at 4:08 AM

    Hello Mollie,
    Hurrah, I am the first one who comments on your blog. It looks so nice yet, you are getting this thing working. And soon you will be perfect with this. Congratulations for your blog and your Internet presence.
    I am glad that I am already in your blog list and now I will take yours in my blog.
    Doris

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  2. mollie jonesApril 23, 2009 at 7:15 AM

    Thanks Doris. I think this will be great fun. Am probably going to take the large photo down a bit under the heading, but you know I don't seem to get in any hurry from our front blog.

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  3. Mary KosaryApril 24, 2009 at 10:15 AM

    Love the photo. I think that is cool to have people know what the artist looks like. M

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  4. Tracy HallApril 24, 2009 at 12:14 PM

    Great painting, Mollie, it sounds like it was fun while it evolved too! Good to see your pic and find your blog...shall be watching!

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  5. mollie jonesApril 24, 2009 at 2:51 PM

    Mary and Tracy...thanks for stopping by. Am working on several things right now and just need to get busy and finish.

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  6. joyce faulknorApril 26, 2009 at 7:14 AM

    Mollie I think this paintng is so beautiful, the wet into wet technique is great each painting begins as a mystery and develops into something so unique and beautiful.

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