This commission was finished recently. The planned painting was 40X55, painted on canvas.
Originally I supplied a few color plans, to guidelines supplied by the collector (the Dieters), the image below was thier chosen color design.
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The Dieters had specific colors in mind for the work, because they wanted it to take pride and place in a new room extension of their home.
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The painting after initial lines are marked out and some under painting.
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Usually I paint the flower foliage pretty early on, but in this case it came later. A key reason for this was the Dieters had requested some 'color magic'. They'd chosen a color plan with primarily cool colors, however they were concerned the final painting shouldn't be too cold. In short, they wanted it to be a warm, cool colored painting - no small task. For that reason I established the correct major background tones first and when I came to the greens of the foliage I took special care to keep them in the right ranges. I also used a lot of the warm under painting, allowing it to poke through. All of these things helped warm the painting up.
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The final painting.
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This weekend I finally met the Dieter family at Gallery i fine art (Monterey, CA) and they saw the painting for the first time. They loved it, (always good)!
Really lovely. I like the underpainting. Interestly I used to always use an orange ground...I like the way it warms the shadows .I see Cobalt blue/ violets at the top cool cerulean in the middle with warm bits and warm at the bottom. Very Nice! Alan
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