Watercolor: Alstroemeria

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Alstroemeria 7 x 8 Watercolor on paper Sold

A week from today, I’ll be rolling into Little Italy with a road case full of art for the San Diego Artwalk. The next weekend, I’ll be at the Sierra Madre Art Fair under the flock of wild green parrots that live in the trees at Memorial Park. The details for each show are online in an email flyer I sent out with hours and days here

So, lets break it down: if you’re so inclined, based on your location [in California], you can visit Gale’s Restaurant in Pasadena, where there are 18 remaining watercolors on display, along with the same amount of oils by my exhibit partner Laura Wambsgans. They’ll be on display till June 10th. If you’re in the San Diego Area, swing on by the Art Walk in Little Italy April 30th & May 1st. Laura is at the show too, so come and hang out. The next week – Mother’s Day weekend, we’re both showing work at the Sierra Madre Art Fair. How’s that for a variety of options? (Just trying to be helpful towards your weekend planning.) :o)

painting gardens in watercolor
Reference photo in (almost) black and white to focus on values, with work in progress on the right

Changing the format to a square, removing the pole on the right, and swapping an assorted bouquet for alstroemeria, because I can. Being a painter is a little like being a magician, don’t you think? Nice bouquet, but, um, I’m in the mood for alstroemeria in pinks and reds, and a blue pillow instead of red, so Shahzahm-with-the-brush. Done. 🙂

Thanks for stopping by today, and I’ll see you in the next post!

Belinda

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Art Quote
Back in Paris on the 14th of July, Bastille Day, Sargent suffered his own attack of restlessness. On the spur of the moment he, and Paul Helleu and another young painter, Albert Belleroche, took a night train to the Netherlands. The next day, they visited some of Frans Hals’ paintings in Haarlem, and returned directly to Paris. Traveling on to Brittany soon afterwards, Sargent found Mme. Gautreau less cooperative than ever. He wrote to Vernon Lee: “Your letter has just reached me, still in this country house struggling with the unpaintable beauty and hopeless laziness of Mme. Gautreau.”
When Sargent left Les Chenes Parame for Paris, the portrait was only half finished. And his restlessness now, in October, was as acute as it had been on Bastille Day. Sargent traveled to Italy, but was soon back in Paris, hard – even desperately – at work on Mme. Gautreau’s portrait. Sometime late in 1883, he wrote to Ben del Castillo:
“The painting is much changed and far more advanced than when you last saw it. One day I was dissatisfied with it and dashed a tone of light rose over the former gloomy background. I turned it upside down, retiring to the other end of the studio and looked at it under my arm. Vast improvement. The elancee of the figure shows to much greater advantage. The picture is framed and on a great easel, and Carolus has been to see it and said “Vous pouver l’envoyer au Salon avec confiance.” Encouraging, but false. I have made up my mind to be refused.” ~C. Ratcliffe

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