Saturday, May 25, 2013

Iris


This painting was inspired by Sylvia's Iris painting.  I needed something to paint Thursday at the art center.  So I took a half sheet of hot press watercolor paper and some photos of irises.  I did direct painting with Opera and other reds and quickly put stripes for the background.  I borrowed Gretchen's Murphy's Oil and wiped out red color.  I then rinsed the whole painting off under the faucet.  I wished I had brought another painting to work on because I had to wait for this one to dry.  Today I painted soft detail at the edge of petals,

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