From the Artist: "I did this more than a year ago, shortly after I started painting. It was an appealing image off a costmetic package and I used dozens of layers of glaze to try to achieve translucency. Blue is one of the most difficult colors for my digital camera to reproduce successfully -- it frequently reproduces as a dazzling electric color in an image using a broad palette -- quite annoying. I have to use the digital camera software to tone it down, which then skews all the other colors as well."
From the Painting Guide: This over-sized rose feels as if you could put your nose into it and smell its scent. The textured background has to me, on different occasions, looked like small rose buds and foliage. I wonder if you know the works of Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) who cropped natural subjects, including flowers, very closely, turning them into abstract landscapes (and with lots of sexual imagery according to some).
Things to consider:
- Other colors: This could make a striking series of monochrome paintings to show the difference in emotion that a color produces, such as red for passion and white for purity, platonic friendships.