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Painting of Violet Tea I
Another in my Birds & Teacups Series, Violet Tea I is still very much a work in progress…
Quick oil sketch…
Some lovely loose brush strokes suggesting violets…
Sketching in the background…
Filling in here and there…
Wiping off the gestural background that I was afraid was building up too much…
Blocking in some shadows and loosing my loose violets in a pursuit of realism…
Sharpening up details, but there’s such a long way to go in terms of drama (which will come from the lighting) in this piece…..I’ll post more when there’s more to see.
I didn’t know I was going to go for a greenish background! Such a busy image really called out for a simplified palette.
Here is the finished painting, which is now on exhibit at the Los Gatos Museum Gallery.