12 x 18 O/C
This is a scan of a photocopy (because I gave away the original) of a painting I used to like. It was done mostly from life as a 3-hour demo at a gallery some years back, and the final touches finished from photos at home. I say I "used to" like it, because today in Frank Ordaz's workshop I became aware of a deficiency that I now see in all of my work to date: a failure to correctly evaluate and depict temperature of light as it moves across subjects. For example, the warmer blue foreground colors show a little of this, but those sunflowers surely should have had some cooler hues in the darks. Of course, seeing and understanding a concept is one thing, and implementing it quite another. But I believe this understanding has the potential to eventually transform my work. Anyway, one can hope.
