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Lavender and Gold, 20x20 Oil
Lavender and Gold
After painting several small studies for my upcoming "Flowers of Italy" show, today's blog post is the first of the larger paintings I plan to paint.
Here's my 20x20in canvas with the landscape elements lightly sketched.
I decided to start from the top and work my way down to the brightly colored field of lavender. I also decided to include the peaks of the mountains, rather than shroud them in cloud cover, because I felt it made the background shape more interesting.
This image shows the set-up that I used to guide my painting. On the left you can see the reference photo on my i-pad (attached to an old watercolor easel) with my little 6x6 study beneath it. The band of golden hue beneath the tree line is a field of sunflowers :)
For the field of lavender, I covered the rest of the canvas with a thin layer of transparent oil paint ...
... and then I painted a second layer with thicker opaque paint. I really enjoyed painting the vibrant colors of this scene!
"Lavender and Gold", 20x20 Oil
