11" x 14", oil on panel.I've come to love peonies the most during my recent flower painting adventures. They are so delicate and yet so vibrant, translucent and yet solid. The one problem I find with them is how quickly they change! I'll set up my still life, turn around to tone my canvas, turn back around and they're all different. Or I'll come running home from the store with these perfect little buds and by the time I get set up--all open. They sure are demanding.
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16 comments:
STUNNING!!!!!!!!!! It's full of that intense-kind of light which draws you in and leaves you so satisfied. Why should I go all the way to TX when I could just study with you
Another awesome work Karen. I love how vibrant you made the colors in the peonies...a real stand out! :)
Wow! I love peonies and I love this painting. Your colors are superb!
You did a terrific job as always, Karen... And brave!!!
I love peonies too and bought some last week that were the same color... I intended to paint them ..... instead I watched them bloom and fade.... They were beautiful... but not painted.
Hi Everyone, Thanks! They are beautiful flowers aren't they? I can't seem to stop buying and painting them!
Susan, then we can study with each other! fair enough. And, yeah, I'm working on that light...
Kathleen, that vibrancy is what always captures me, and I've been working at keeping all of the other colors duller to get them to look even brighter.
Leslie, I'll be looking for some on your blog too! They're wonderful to paint.
Marian, Thank you, and, paint them! :) Although I do the same thing as you, buy them and watch them and not paint them...sometimes I'm not up to it!
Brilliant! Since I found your site I have been trying to follow the very good advice you gave on empty space. I absolutely love this painting.
This is one of those images in which you seem to sum up all that you have been working toward. It is so instructive to see your process of beginning on a problem, working it through, and establishing mastery. That's a real gift to all of us who follow your site. Thanks for that, and this is a gorgeous painting!
Karen,
Your work with peonies is like an opera singer with her best arias. They sing. It's so wonderful when you find the subject matter with which you resonate. You are SOOOOO there!
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
They're divas for sure.
These are gorgeous! I love how you've varied between the abstracted elements while maintaining the real personality of those demanding sweeties.
Really well done!
How wonderful of you to share your great works with the rest of us. I found your blog by looking up David Leffel's workshops. What a great surprise!
Kudos.
Hi Joan, Thanks for telling me that! So good to know that the advice has helped! When it was given to me, it helped me a lot too, and I'm still working on it!
Carol, thanks so much for that. I agree, some pieces do feel like they come together, and I do think this was one. Now if they all (okay some more) could do that. I guess too I feel like that's what it's all about, the solving of 'problems', even before making an image, per se.
Thank Loriann, So true, finding subject matter that resonates. I can't stop buying peonies!
Ha! Jala that's funny, they are divas! perfect description.
Thanks Melinda! That was one of Leffel's admonitions: to maintain, through our brushstroke, the personality of that which we're painting. Difficult!
Hi Carolina, Thanks so much for coming by and for your comment. Welcome! I can't say enough good things about David's workshops. Really tremendous, and so many doors opened with him. I'd be hard pressed to find a better teacher. I look forward to visiting your blog also!
These peonies are GORGEOUS! Love.
Thanks Laurel!!
Beautiful painting... beautiful website.
Hi Ako, Thanks so much for stopping by and for your comment!
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