Fracturing the Roses

Fracturing the Roses

6x6in oil on canvas board   SOLD

Had a lot of fun with this one. Guess what...No LEMONS!
I guess my series has finished. It only took 17 lemon paintings!!!!

This is completely from the imagination. I was drawing on memory
from the series of roses I did in October/November last year.

Fracturing is a term I came up with for my own work in this technique.

Artist Note.
For those of you who do not do a "series" or wonder why I would
do them, this is my story.
Yellow bothered me. I disliked some of the acid tones I seemed to get.
I never used raw or burnt umber  on my palette - which is
common to darken yellow.
I used purple, the complement, but still had a struggle.
If the purple was too bluish then I would produce green...too red a purple
and I would get an unpleasant brown. Plus, it all depended on the type
of yellow or brand, but now I have found a comfortable way of using yellow
which I did not have before the series.  The series was successful.
This morning I came to the studio and started to paint
the underneath part and found myself getting rid
of the lemons and putting in roses.