Michael's had a really fabulous sale on all Spring and Summer flowers and I bought these red peonies. LOVE them and they were so much fun to paint. I am working very hard on the compositions in my paintings. To begin with I section off the canvas into 3rds length and width. I focus on finding where I want to find the focal point and try to place it in the sweet spot. this is one of the intersections of the length and width lines. Do you follow me? It resembles a tic tak toe board. The I find my darkest darks and two more values including white. I then lay in the darkest values and then the middle values. I end by putting in my lightest lights. At this point there is quite a bit of refining that takes place. I work hard to use a very limited palette and find a nice harmony between all of the colors. It is a felt thing at this point to decide when the painting is done.
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