“A vase with roses.”
For the third week in a row I have decided to paint roses for my weekly painting and this is because I feel I need more practice with them.
They are beautiful flowers, but have an immensely complicated and intricate structure, with many overlapping petals, of various sizes and shapes, positioned, more or less on a spiral. Anyway, I find painting roses a great challenge, hence I will start painting more, for more practice and because I like roses.
For the setup I have used five roses from our garden and a little ceramic vase we bought few years ago from Delft. It is Delft ceramic, decorated the same as 400 years ago with a blue pattern.
As per usual, a quite reduced palette and no medium, just turps.
I have decided to experiment a bit, so I went for a much darker background, to make the flowers and the vase pop.
So, here it is:
“A vase with roses.”
30 X 40cm (12” X 16”)
