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| Matisse Garden - Summer of 2014, en plein air C.T. Rasmuss, oil. |
It took me all summer, but after some
struggles in finishing what I started, I was able to....well finish.
I believe it took me 5 settings all together, being that it's an
oil, I used Liquin for the first time to help drying process along
the way, as I'm not keen to additives, but it helped I believe. As I
had no excuses for not being able to finish it before summer was
over, because it still needing to dry in between settings, lol.
As I first set off in the beginning of
the summer to do an en plein air, still life from my own flowers in
in my own garden space; in the style of Matisse(but still a tribute
to Monet's Garden), I thought it would be a simple process: take
pictures, paint from photos and the live ones in front of me, and
done(one day if that). Whoops - I was wrong, it ended up being a
beautiful process and to pay such a process the proper respect, it
takes the proper time and devotion, which took a whole summer, and I
just finished in September a few days ago.
Here's a link to the original post in
June when I started, it also contains photos of the 5 flowers I
originally had in mind: link to Matisse Garden - original post.
And I have posted 4 additional flowers
which I eventually added to the piece; 4 much needed flowers that I
had the blessing to have on hand, growing around me in the comfort of
my own home:
The End
of the summer that is..
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