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MEDIUM: Acrylics on Watercolor Paper
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SIZE: 22" x 22", turned on the diagonal
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STATUS: For sale $625, in a double white mat and platinum frame, with the deckle edges of the watercolor revealed, to hang dramatically on the diagonal
"Daylilies grow wild near our creek and inspired this painting. I had never appreciated the range of colors in what I always thought of as orange petals, until I analyzed them close enough to reproduce them realistically. I did a small daylily painting first, on canvas, in an opaque acrylic style. I loved how it came out, and decided to do another view, in a watercolor manner on paper, using the paper itself for the whites of the subject, and glazing layer upon layer of transparent pigment.
I contrasted the vivid colors against the shaded background, throwing the rest out of focus, to make the flower the star of the painting. I decided the image would be more interesting if I turned the paper on the diagonal, and that is how it is matted and framed also."
