Monday, February 2, 2009

Red Hibiscus

Oil on stretched canvas 10" x 12"
C.$ 225. unframed
It took me several trys to get to a point where I am satisfied with this painting...it's occuring to me lately how challenging painting really is. A painter has an image, in reality and then in his or her imagination. I usually visualize the end result that I want on the canvas...along the way I "follow my brush"...I try to let the painting and my inner voice guide me to create what is an interpretation of my subject. I leave things out, and put others in, and constantly check and rearrange my values and colours. Does this always result in a fabulous work of art? Unfortunately no, and why that is...remains a mystery to me.



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