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| Painting a color sketch featuring David Austin roses. |
The profusion of roses and their looming absence from the garden over winter has had me focusing on a series of studies featuring roses. Focusing on David Austin roses and tea hybrid roses, I've been analyzing roses' colors and form, drawing charcoal studies, painting full-size value studies, and capturing quick color sketches.
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| Painting a value study featuring hybrid tea roses. |
George Cochran Lambdin (1830-1896), was a Philadelphia area painter famous for his roses. He began painting roses as a means to explore the subtleties of flesh tones for his portraiture work. He painted roses in natural settings and in the greenhouse; one painting even includes a wheelbarrow full of roses. Happy will be the day when my garden yields such a profusion! In the time being, I treasure the small handfuls offered up daily.
2 comments:
The roses are rapidly approaching mastery--before they disappear from the garden.
Sally, thank you for commenting! Ive run out of enough blooms to do paintings and by the time the roses start blooming again, I'll need to do another whole round of studies!
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