Summer,Please Stay.

Summer, Please Stay. 12x12 $75

The  #1 thing you will hear me say in the Fall and Winter is –“I HATE cold weather!”

I don’t want my flowers to fade and I don’t want that chill when I step out to the garage. I don’t like achy parts, which I swear are caused by the cold.

Hopefully I have stored up enough flower photos to last

through the wintery blast.

I love geraniums because they are cheerful and easy to grow. They don’t require much and give a lot. Each head is like a tiny bouquet. They remind me of Summer.

For this one I started working with transparent color under each color mass and then filled in the darker areas. It looked so different at that stage and I loved the colors and almost didn’t want to push it further…

The next morning I felt like the right foreground was a bit too purple so I glazed over it with  Indian Yellow and then added Viridian to the shadows to deepen them. This required me to add a little red glaze to parts of the flowers and then a little transparent orange. I stepped away to do some laundry and pesky errands and then added cad. yellow light to the leaf highlights and pink to the buds.. And then a little this and a little that…and three days later I was maybe sure I was done. Sometimes ,well most of the time it takes a while to know when I am finished. And I am really not sure why I know, I just do.

I got that wow-I did that? feeling when I painted this one and that is really fun!

Hope you love it too. The nice thing about a painting is that you can have a little Summer no matter the season!

Till next time,

Lana