Friday, June 13, 2008

Catalpa Bloom Painting


The painting so far. This painting is a return to oil painting for me and a return to realistic art.


Adding a second layer of paint to the background.


Adding yellow to the blooms.

A photo of the blooms I'm painting.

2 comments:

Joan Sandford-Cook said...

How brave painting in oils outdoors and in such large scale! You've made me want to do the same. See how we bounce off each other fellow artist?? Your painting is coming on a treat. .. Trouble over here is whether we get more than an hour of the same weather conditions!!!! Thanks for your comment in my iris post.

Robert A Vollrath said...

I'm not that brave, I'm painting the flower details inside by picking blooms off the trees. Missouri is getting hit by waves of storms.
Iowa is getting the worst of it with flooding in almost every county in the state.

After posting the photos of the painting I jumped over to your blog to find you sitting outdoors painting
flowers. I had to smile.

This is my first painting of flowers and I'm starting on a second one today called
"Popcorn and Blooms".