White Rose

White Rose

8x6in oil on canvas panel  $125. SOLD

Artist Note

This was a demo for a guild member

to show how I do transition edges.

Transition edges prevent the dreaded

cookie-cutter look by running a mixture 

of the background color and 

slightly darker value of whatever

you are painting... along 

the edges.

I find this applies more to the color

WHITE than any other color.

As  Marc Chagall taught us..

All colors are friends of their neighbors...

so you can see from the cropped close-up

all the colors from the background 

are mixed into the white rose and the actual white 

does not go all the way to the edge. 

There is a transitional value of pale color 

on the edges.

Below is the way John Singer Sargent  handled 

the transitional edge.

Click to enlarge and you will 

notice the purest white is not at the very edges.

And notice the background colors brought 

into the white

Ruth Sears Bacon

JSS

This one is hard to see, but it does have a line of

slightly darker values running along the edges.

Roses

JSS