6"x4" oil on raymar panel. Planning these paintings out in advance is really not part of the daily painting regimen. Planning can snuff out some of the fun/challenge. But, this time I had thought ahead about going into the garden, whacking a bunch of purple garlic flowers and placing them on some sort of yellow background – seeing where a play on complimentary colors would lead. My mistake was announcing my intentions out loud. What the heck was I thinking? Next morning I came into the studio and the ever so lovely Spousal Unit was already there with a bunch of purple garlic flowers PLUS these yellow orchid-like flowers from the garden (sorry, don't know their name, grabbed seeds from a local hillside – yes, legally). So, here you have it, garlic flowers and yellow anonymous orchid-like flowers in a narrow glass vase, NOT on a yellow background. I'd change the locks, but she would just open the door with her mysterious mind power.
Posted June 16, 2010
private collection glendale, ca
