Pansy Pleasure... continued

Pansy Pleasures - continued

8x6' oil on canvas  Sold..

What's not to like about pansies? 

They are sturdy, colorful and

have a happy face. Best of all 

they provide visual pleasure

throughout the winter months. 

Artist Note.

One of the advantages I find by 

using the Fracturing technique

is the ability to suggest something by color, 

without rendering it perfectly.

In this case, I first painted the focal point 

with the correct form of a pansy.

Once this had been established I could 

then make any shape, and as

long as I repeated a color or used 

the very distinctive yellow center,

it would read as a pansy.

Here is a close up to show you how abstract 

the one above and next to the focal pansy is.

The mind makes it a pansy 

because it is next to a pansy of 

the same color.

Also the little touch of a yellow center 

is code for pansy.

I am experimenting with painting the pansies

in watercolor on Yupo and regular paper. FUN.

but hard to get what I want. 

P.S.

This is a repeat of a post I did back 

a couple of years ago. I am busy wrapping up 

the classes for the year, One more week!