Earlier this week I decided I wanted to paint crystal again and had this drawing done. Painting glass and crystal is somehow very calming and soothing to me. I jokingly say it's really "paint by numbers", but when you see detail and love to paint detail...that's about true. I wanted this to be with analogous colors so I've changed the chardonnay to red wine and I'm having to explore some new reds. I've found that my bright transparent reds don't really work cohesively with the purples and magentas of the red wine. I also realize now that there will be lots of glazing going on to establish the wine level in the decantur realistically and I can't do that until I really settle on the right colors. Sure is nice to be able to make adjustments and live with it for a little bit...this one may take me a few more days than I had planned. And, I'm not all that good at glazes so we'll just see what happens here.
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Mollie, you are not only the Red Queen, but the Cherry Queen! These cherries look superb!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Christiane...your cherries are really gorgeous on that new large painting you are showing on your blog right now...also love that blue dish.
ReplyDeleteThis is looking good, I can't wait to see the finished painting.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Laura...it's going pretty easily so far. I'm playing with analogous colors and playing with some reds I'm not really familiar with...so, we'll see how it turns out.
ReplyDeleteit looks already so mad
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Stephanie
It's coming along beautifully Mollie. I really admire your patience to paint cut crystal, it is so hard not to get lost when you're doing that! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for looking in and your comment, Gartenmalereien...just visited your lovely blog.
ReplyDeleteAnd Thanks Crystal...I love to paint crystal...wish I could paint portraits like you...you get fabulous skin tones.
Well of well look at this. This is going to be a stunning piece dear Mollie. Love the red already. I don't have the patience to paint crystal or is it that I'm scared. Yeap! that's it I'm scared. Love it Mollie
ReplyDeletewill be beautiful i am sure of it!! love it already!!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Christiane and Suzy...I haven't worked on this in the past week...it's spring time here and my flowerbeds are calling my name. Hopefully I'll get back to it this coming week. Thanks so much for your comments...I always value what you think of my work.
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