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Lilac Blooms
Oil on panel, 6x6 |
What a beautiful day for a family dinner! It has been so warm, the kids have been playing outside so much today! I had less than an hour this morning to get a painting in between cooking and preparing for company, so I chose a small 6x6 panel - and chose my grandmother's lilacs as my subject! No, they are not yet blooming, but I am calling them into existence by the very act of painting them! As with the rose I painted a couple of days ago, I started by painting the lightest lights and the darkest darks, and then placing the most intense color. By mapping this out early, it keeps me on tract, and I don't get distracted with all the areas competing for my attention. I like this approach! Painting number 433 in 433 days! It is supposed to be 70 degrees tomorrow! Yay!
Beautiful
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Love your way of intertwining the colors.
ReplyDeleteI simply love lilacs, they are probably my mom and I's favorite flowers and you captured them beautifully. I can almost smell them. I always love coming to your house when they're blooming because we drive by that house that has a row of them in front of their fence and you can smell them on the breeze as we drive by.
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