"Yellow Frangipani in a glass bottle", 8x10, oil on panel, lemon, frangipani, glass bottles, reflections, summer still life, exotic flowers

"Yellow Frangipani in a glass bottle", 8x10, oil on panel

My yellow frangipanis are finally blooming and they are drop dead gorgeous this year!
I picked one and set it up in this arrangement below and I was struck by how much it looked like a fleur de lis.

I love painting glass bottles. While challenging, they are infinitely more interesting to paint with their myriad reflections and idiosyncrasies.

"Dancing Queens and a Pear", 12x12, oil on board, roses, pink roses, dancing queen roses, pear, glass bottles, impressionism

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"Dancing Queens and a Pear", 12x12, oil on board
Note: This painting was juried into the American Impressionist Society's 2013 annual show!

I wanted to take advantage of those three lovely roses that I painted earlier in the week to create one more painting before they were gone. I arranged them with a pear and glass bottles that worked with the color scheme I had in my mind, which was an analogous theme using mostly cools of red, blue and green.

I used a palette knife in the pear and roses and a brush in other areas and so the painting has areas of thick impasto as well as thinner paint.

You can click the image in order to see the impasto better.