"Fuchsia Peonies"
8 x 10 in
Oil on Canvas Panel
I wanted to mention that today is the one year anniversary of winning the Daily Painters contest, cannot thank all of you enough for making that happen. It has been such a blessing in winning that competition and just every moment after that, it was one of the toughest times in waiting to see if I would win or not and glad it went the way it did. Apart from the contest I've painted so much more prior to it, its taught me so much discipline and shown me how much fun one can have painting these little gems every day. I enjoy the concept of discipling oneself to paint for a certain time of the day everyday (if you can), sounds so simple but yet it can be very complicated depending on one's schedule. Not only they're fun to paint but they've taught me so much outside of the schooling I've had, to paint in a consistent manner every day you get to learn from your mistakes and try so many different approaches to your technique. I thoroughly recommend it to anyone wanting to push themselves to that next level. I think of it as sketching in your sketchbook every day you do it because it warms you up and it gets you better, the more you practice the better you'll get. These alla prima's have been a blessing to me and truly feel so lucky to be able to get up every morning and paint these jewels.
These peonies where a lot of fun to paint, I especially like the arrangement in composing them on the canvas. The color pattern and fall of light on the peonies where just to good not to paint, as stated in the previous post when I painted another batch of peonies they can be very challenging to paint. Aside from the challenges, it was a lot of fun playing with different textures and impastos. I also enjoyed playing with the composition and getting the right movement that I can through out the picture. Painting the bright fuchsia colors was a bit challenging as well, a beautiful color all around though. Peonies are such beautiful flowers to paint and enjoyed every bit of it, I hope to do more of these in the future.
You can see the making of this painting on my blog:
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