This work was started at a workshop taken by Liz Seward and using acrylic paints, finessed with Neocolor II wax pastels. The pastels (or crayons) are water soluble so can be blended on top of the acrylic painting or left as drawing marks to add more detail.
This first photo is my painting as it left the workshop.
I had taken some photos for a Still Life arrangement and this is the one Liz recommended I do.
Liz also recommended that I get rid of the furled leaf lying across the stems but I thought I knew better and so I left it in as I was enjoying trying to get the form right.......
I still have the furled leaf but I have changed the angle of the stems to separate them from the bowl a bit. I have wet the Neocolor to blend it into the forms of the objects. The orange (top right) is looking more like an orange but the lemon on the left is not sitting down in the bowl.
This is the latest version and I am debating whether to leave it like this or alter the tulip stems to make them less rose-like: they should be thicker and not so rigid.
The furled leaf has gone, thank goodness: it was a real pain
That left-hand lemon is bothering me now.
What title shall I give it?
If it is to go in the local exhibition, it needs a title.
