Title and Medium
Last Flight. Oil on cardboard. 50x40 cm.
Artist's Statement
Some time ago I found this wonderful school of painting and started to learn extensively with a hope to move from amateur looking pictures to professional performance. The results are inspiring. I decided to participate in this challenge. Initially I planned to paint large pictures with three flowers, but I saw a similar work already submitted here. So I selected a part of that composition and made a full size study for that major work.
I made several studies in MSPaint first to decide about the colour scheme.
I made a charcoal drawing of the shapes of a petal from my own reference photo and coloured them using recommendations of Marion's resource and my own feeling.
I used the following paints: For Background (I painted it first) - Paynes Gray and Titanium White (in the end I added some Emerald in few places)
For petal: Vermilion, Alizarin and scarlet (2 brands) - to create "vibrant" red and Indigo and Primary cyan
For Stems: Emerald green +Titanium White
What I'd Do Differently
- It is just a study for a large work. I hope that in main work lines will be more perfect.
- I am glad that I achieved "vibrancy" in colours of the petal.
- I am glad that I managed to show movement. I wondered if the right-left movement might be same expressive as left-right one.
- I'd like to repeat it on canvas with palette-knife.
- I'd "play" some more time with stems, for I am not quite sure about the left one.
Marion Boddy-Evans, Painting Guide, says:
One way to find out if a right-left movement would be as expressive as a left-right one -- paint one of each, put them side by side, and see which you prefer.
