May Flowers

May Flowers

Posted on May 1, 2018
By cabinart

April showers bring May flowers in some parts of the world; in Three Rivers, it is more this way: With April heat, May flowers are beat.

That’s okay. I can paint my own flowers.

This is going to take longer than expected. Most paintings do.

I build the background around the flowers, then touch up the flowers.

Enough greens; time for flowers.

Wild Hyacinth and Chinese Houses.

There is so much variety, and I’m trying to make it look natural rather than arranged.

I think this is finished! I titled it “April in Three Rivers” and sent a photo of it to a lady who expressed an interest during the Studio Tour. She wants it! I can paint it again for you- 8×10″, $125 plus tax.

That was so fun that I began a similar one, this time in the horizontal format.

But wait! What is all this?

Lots of skies.

This is how it looks when there is a stack of new paintings ready to begin. Sky is the farthest thing in a scene, so it goes on first.

oil paintings Three Rivers wildflowers

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