Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Evening Glow

Declining Years - oil on canvas - 24 x 28
I was using the palette knife on this one as well as rags, brushes, my fingers, a squirt bottle...it's getting a little muddy, but I kind of am liking the ethereal quality to it... today I am embracing the uncertainty and leaving it be, at least until it speaks to me again, if it ever does.  This one is the 3rd in a series of rose themed paintings I started early in October.  
While I was painting it I was thinking about age and beauty.  The warm glazing added an 'evening glow' or  'vintage' esthetic to this piece.

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8 comments:

  1. Sue Marrazzo Fine ArtJanuary 13, 2016 at 8:34 AM

    What a sweet painting!

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  2. Wendy BarrettJanuary 13, 2016 at 8:54 AM

    This looks beautiful as it is Sally - it does have a lovely ethereal quality to it!

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    1. UnknownJanuary 13, 2016 at 9:59 AM

      thanks Wendy, I really got into working on this one after being bored by my 30in30 effort yesterday...it felt good to work more intuitively on something larger.

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  3. JaneJanuary 14, 2016 at 2:13 PM

    A beautiful mass of roses , really like the ethereal feeling you get, probably from working with your fingers .

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    1. UnknownJanuary 29, 2016 at 8:19 AM

      hi Jane, so nice to have your comment, and thank you!

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  4. Barbara MuirJanuary 19, 2016 at 11:56 PM

    Love the roses. They look like they are at the height of perfect beauty. So love them.

    XOXOXOXOXOXO Barbara

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    1. UnknownJanuary 29, 2016 at 8:24 AM

      thanks Barbara...well the analogy here is that i actually concluded while working on this, that the height of perfect beauty is actually found AS we age despite what the media would have us believe. The less perfect thing is that we lose some things like short term memory and physical changes but in my mind anyway, beauty is not these things.

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