“Daffodils and other flowers.”
Spring is finally here. And all the plants in the garden have survived the snow. Even the daffodils, which, initially I thought they were going to die, buried under the thick snow. But, the snow melted, quite quickly actually, hence everything returned to normal.
During the week, I painted another pineapple, I have three already. So, for the weekly painting, I decided to paint some daffodils, to celebrate their survival. I picked them from the garden and put them together with some crocuses, they survived the snow as well.
I did the painting on an old canvas I had, which was tinted with a pinkish colour a while ago, when I had some red, left over from another painting.
I did the under drawing with Italian Cassel, then I did the background in few layers of Italian Cassel with titanium white, with some transparent brown oxide for the final thick layer of paint. I did the light with just white and Italian Cassel. I painted the flowers with yellow ochre, initially, then I added some cadmium yellow medium and Naples yellow.
For the highlights I used white with some lemon yellow.
I, again, used the B & W viewer for the values.
So, here it is:
“Daffodils and other flowers.”
Oil on linen.
30 X 40cm (12” X 16”).
