“Blue vase with daffodils.”
I have had a great week for painting. Although it was a very busy and stressful week at work, always is before Easter or Christmas, I still managed to do two little still life paintings. First was an Easter painting, with two chocolate bunnies and some chocolate eggs. I painted it over the week, working on it in the evenings.
Then, for my weekly painting I have chosen another floral. And, what better choice than some more daffodils from the garden. This time I used a small blue vase for the set up. And for the composition, I added few little purple red flowers from the garden; don’t know what they are.
Because of Easter , I only managed to start it in the afternoon and painted it alla prima over few hours. I struggled a bit with this one, lack of concentration (I don’t know why), and, perhaps I got the background a bit to dark. I painted in dark room, using the B & W viewer for the values, but I could have done it s bit lighter. Anyway, I am happy with the result and feel better about it now then during painting it.
I used my usual reduced palette, just added some more yellows, I used four different yellows as opposed to the usual two.
So, here it is:
“Blue vase with daffodils.”
Oil on linen.
24 X 30cm (10” X 12”).
