Romantic Botanicals #32

The Housebound Adventurer

or Lacy Underthings

Lilac Bush in the gusty rainy weather.

I am painting inside looking out of our side door. It is has been bucketing down rain and now windy too. Too windy for my plastic hut. I am cold and tired. Rick has gone to Quebec City.

This painting is lighter than the photo. The background is graffiti like drawing of leaves. The lilacs are sculpted in with chopping brush mark and are heavy and full. The leaves are thin and smeared to swish in the wind. I love the heavy light contrasts in this work making it playful/moody.

romantic botanicals #32, The Housebound Adventurer  May 31,  2016 oil on canvas 9" x 12"