In the Studio: White Mums - part 2

White Mums
16 x 20
Oil on Canvas
(stages 5-8, left to right top to bottom)

The mums are coming along just fine. After the initial block in and color lift I contured the vase a bit and worked on the flower pedals. And bottom row the blossoms have become quite yellow. That is all part of the plan. That under painting, along with the in red in the shadows under them (anchoring them to the surface) will be very useful as the piece progresses. This painting will be about the whiteness of the mums, but white is rarely really white, is it?

I will be setting this painting aside for a little bit, while I work on another piece for a while. I like to juggle a few paintings a time on occasion. And now is the time for one of those occasions.

Next Tuesday -- the new painting takes birth.