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My wifes Gaillardia Goblin flowers – June 3, 2010
14 x 11 inches, oil on canvas

This painting is of our flower box of Gaillardia Goblin flowers. They’re a prolific, colorful flower with a beautiful color contrast between flower head and stems. For me, the garden and painting are therapeutic. In creating this piece, I combined both of these enjoyable things, which invoked memories of playing outside in the comfort of my backyard as a child.

I painted this piece in two sittings. For the first sitting, I worked the entire canvas, remaining conscious of the design and the movement of the flowers from the front of the canvas to the back. Even though the canvas was a tight space, I enjoyed contrasting the differences in paint from the blurred distance. I moved from the less defined to the more defined and then played on the crisp shocks of light-colored greens radiating off the painting to capture the space of the flowers. I wanted the colors to feel natural and to portray light. However, I quickly found, while painting plein air, that matching colors did not give the same separation I needed on canvas to match the flowers in the garden.

During the second sitting, I wanted to experiment with glazing, and I chose “Liquin original” medium to push back a shadow in the middle-top of the painting into which I could scumble. Glazing was a technique favored by some Impressionists. I had not used it for a long time, but decided to give the technique a chance. Although I liked its overall affect, I don’t think it’s a technique I would use to excess.

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