Painting the lilac rose and meeting the artist while on tour.

Painting the lilac rose and meeting the artist while on tour. 12/15/2009

I have been painting this Dioressence rose for a couple of evenings, it represents about ten hours work and not forgetting the fifty six years of art training that went in before I painted it.

Stage 2/ the block in. At this stage, I paint the parts of the rose that are the greatest contrast to the white water colour paper surface. This means that I paint all the dark parts of the painting first. Once this is done, I paint all the medium dark sections. Then the middle tones, then the medium light tones. The final stage of the block in is to paint the lightest parts of the rose, I even left small amounts of the white paper showing, as is done when you paint transparent watercolour, to represent the highlights on the rose.

The third stage/ is the refinement of the painting.
The fourth stage/ is the details, this was mostly the center of the rose.
As you can see from the close up, I prefer slightly impressionistic rather than photo realistic, work. I do not over work or over detail a painting, the artist is not creating a photo, they are capturing a fresh impression of the effect of light on a subject. Once you have captured that impression, if the painting does not tell you it NEEDS anything else to be done to it, it is FINISHED

I have been painting this Dioressence rose for a couple of evenings.

The Dioressence™ rose from the Delbard rose collection is exquisite in fragrance and beauty, truly inspiring the artist to grow and paint. Clusters of lilac flowers shaped like a wide champagne glass with edges etched in red and dark purple.

Do you remember the fragrance of the most beautiful floral scents from the house of Dior? An intriguing scent of mandarin, geranium, forests and moss resembling Christian Dior's great perfume.