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MEDIUM: Acrylics on Watercolor Paper
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SIZE: 22" x 22"
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STATUS: Sold
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PRINTS: Giclee prints are available (contact Judy)
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ACCOLADES: This painting was accepted into the 2010 Tennessee Watercolor Society Biennial Exhibition.
"This painting combines my love of capturing the delicate natural beauty that surrounds me (dogwoods grow wild in my woods) and depicting interesting textured surfaces. It is painted with acrylics, but in a traditional watercolor manner, transparently and using the whites of the paper. The surface is a square sheet of heavy watercolor paper, which I cut and torn to create a deckle edge on all sides. The center circle is painted to look like it's a separate sheet, laid on an old rusty piece of tin.
I tried to play up the contrast of these two sections, with the flowering dogwoods painted in many transparent layers of color (the white areas are unpainted paper) and the outer edges painted more opaquely. I always varnish my paintings to protect the acrylic surface, and in this case I used a gloss varnish over the center circle and a matte on the rest, furthering the illusion."
