Thursday, November 10, 2011

An Oil Painting of a Still Life of Snowball Flowers and Tangerines

"Still Life with Tangerines"
9" x 12"
oil on Raymar canvasboard
These flowers are snowballs.  To me, they look like mini-hydrangeas.  Had fun painting this one as my iPad camera shot interpretted the backdrop as purple, and the still life set-up backdrop was green.  I liked the purple.  It was a nice compliment to the green and orange, so I painted from my iPad image with the opportunity of looking at the actual still life set-up for further ideas.

2 comments:

suzanneberry said...

beautiful! how cool that your ipad camera assisted in completion. the purple looks great with the orange!

Leann said...

Sometimes the ipad knows best! Beautiful!

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