Peonies and Peruvian Lillies on blue table

Peonies and Peruvian Lillies on blue table
Size 28X48 Acrylic on board

Here's a few pictures of my latest painting. Again this was a little larger than paintings I've been doing recently, so it was satisfying to work in this scale. I also always enjoy working in a stretched 'widescreen' style aspect ratio. It adds such a nice passage through the painting; great for landscapes or still lifes!

The early line work.
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Color plan
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Me working feverishly!
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in progress
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in progress (detail)
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The final painting again.
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a detail
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another detail
(I loved the compliment color of that shade of blue vase in front of the back drape)
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Blame it on Christmas!

With little ones in the house there's no end to preparations required for 'the big day'; to that end some things fall of the plate! Last weekend probably in place of doing essential Christmas shopping, I finally got round to hanging a few of my paintings and photographing them (something I'd been meaning to do for quite sometime). Let's hope that too much time spent doing this and painting in my studio doesn't result in a cancelled Christmas in the Wilson household - 'Baa Humbug!' ;-D

Usually I just present cropped images of my final paintings, but if I can supply a photograph of them with the frame or even better - on a wall with furniture, it can really give a potential collector a greater feel for the final work and it's appearance.



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Patterns

tulips on red patterned cloth
Size 36X18
Acrylic on board

Just finished this new painting, it was fun to put some patterning in again, in this case on the tablecloth. I vary a little how I approach painting patterns on cloths, but in this case I painted with fairly strong colors and then toned the contrasts back with a series of glazes. This is a process that works better with oil than Acrylic, since Acrylic washes do tend cover so poorly. The problem of course with oils is you have to wait a long time between each layer, so Acrylics can get the job done quicker.

Overall I'm pretty happy with the amount of tone and contrast in the cloth design, though I preferred the color tone of the little gray/blue/purple squares before glazing. I could have repainted these, but I wanted to keep the continuity across the design. Additionally of course the focus of the design is not solely the tablecloth, but I thought it was note worthy.

Snapdragons with Pears & Lemons
Acrylic on board Size 24X18