Friday, April 16, 2010

Old Roses WIP


Well, here's another WIP I started today with my wonderful art retreat friends in Bullard. One of our artist friends, Debbie Cannatella, (who has recently moved to Corpus) was in town for a workshop and decided to paint with us today before going on to Baton Rouge. She had produced some wonderful paintings in the Mr "Z" (can't spell his name...from Australia)workshop and we enjoyed seeing them up close and personal.

This painting still has lots of work to be done, but do feel pretty good about what I have done to this point. Especially so since I'm working off a black/white value photo. It's much lighter than my usual "in your face" stuff (at least the light pink one anyway), and there's more adding of the stems, leaves and background...and then going back in for needed "fixes", but so far..so good. It's is half sheet and I've only used 3 colors so far...DS perm rose, AJ aliz crimson, and AJ new gamboge. Debbie gave me a tiny blop of Perylene Red and I did use it on one petal, but it was really ugly so I've covered it up. It's more of a grape color than a rose color and I really knew better than to use it...but...it's only paper as I've said before. I'll be out of town for the weekend, but look forward to finishing it Monday and I'll post it then.

5 comments:

  1. Hmmmm....wonder why Debbie loaned you an ugly color of paint. LOL

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  2. beautiful mollie... love the colors.. i like the perylenes.. greens and reds.. but they are strong.. love undersea green.. you will enjoy that color i think!! have a fun and safe trip

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  3. Mollie, your shading is so beautifully done. This is looking beautiful and will wait eagerly to see the next stage of this lovely painting.

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  4. Mollie, this is really looking good. I do so envy you for being able to paint beautiful roses.

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  5. Thanks everyone for your kind comments. Am planning to finish this at our little painting day tomorrow...and post it! We'll see....

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