“A hydrangea bush”.
I have this beautiful hydrangea bush in my garden; it occupies a large corner of my garden. It is full of flowers all summer long. Some are pink, some blue, some with a blueish hue. I wanted to paint it for a long time now, but I never did, until this week.
I painted it alla prima, en plein air, setting up my easel in the garden. It took me around 3 hours to paint, under strict supervision of my cats, Darcy and Vincent.
I painted it using blue ridge colours and De Mayerne medium and I tried to leave it as impressionistic as possible. For the first time in a while I used a Windsor & Newton canvas. The surface was OK and less absorbent than my usual canvases, which is a good thing for plein air painting.
Here it is, my week 32 painting:
“A hydrangea bush”
Oil on linen.
30 X 40cm (12” X 16”).
