Floating Miniature Roses 6x6 oil, copyright 2011
On one of the last truly beautiful days of the season I picked the three best flowers off my miniature rose and set them floating in a little bowl. Moving around to find the best shadows, I finally settled on the stone steps that go down into the bubbling spring we are fortunate to have in the front yard. There is nothing quite like bright sunshine to make shadows and highlights and colors really pop, and that's what I decided to emphasize instead of trying to capture the details and the texture of the horn bowl and stone step.
For some reason roses are always a struggle for me. I'm not sure why, but the layers and layers of short, brightly colored petals give me fits. It took a little bit of reworking, but I feel pretty good about these. And I really feel like I've big improvements on capturing the shapes and shadows of rounded objects like the bowl.
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