Monday 26 September 2016

Mystery Botanicals #20

Miss Lavender and the Cold Spell


The lavender plant is low and out of the gusting wind.  50 to 70 km

It is cold and so I paint cold colours. The pale blue top is thinly scratched in. The leaves are warm to cool turquoise. I like the long stocks of lavender and it's delicate flower, almost wand like. I make one stock a warm purple feminine figure and three other stocks blue purple male figures. It has a melancholy cold change of season feeling.

6mystery botanicals #20 Miss Lavender and the Cold Spell, September 26,  2016 oil on canvas 9" x 12" overcast with high wind 3h

ah ha finally I photographed one of the many birds that flit around me while I paint.

and another one. I am fast draw Mc Graw with my camera today!

a timed photo of when I start the painting to show how low to the ground I paint today.

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