Sing Alleluia
As a teenager, I owned a little music box within a trio figurine of singing nuns. It played “Dominique” from the Debbie Reynolds film, “The Singing Nun.” Recently, I found this old treasure in my mother’s belongings without the music box inside. So, just for fun, here is a little music in paint. Nothing serious here.
May Flowers
May was generous with her peonies this year, and I could not paint enough of them. Full fragrant blooms in pinkish creams…just irresistable. These peonies are in a darker more dramatic background to be cast in a more traditional look. Sometimes a little drama in life is good.
Rose Blush
Simplicity is difficult to consistently achieve, but a small painting can insist on it. This little rose was painted with as few strokes as I could manage, and this is an ingredient for a fresh, painterly appearance…a result always appreciated in impressionistic art.
Bright Shining Faces
Though the image is large, the painting is small; though the glass is real, the flowers are imaginative. But the effort served for practice with complementary colors and with quick application of paint, something that frees me from being too tight with edges.
Daisy Spray
Daisies can bow, nod, and flutter in the wind. For this reason, they need to look loose and not so tightly rendered in paint, a fact that can easily escape me when smearing on their petals. So this was a practice for a look of movement and colorful shadows. Daisies never disappoint me.
