Day 18

8x8 inch oil on panel. 

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I thought I'd try to paint flowers in oils.  Having painted a lot of flowers a few years ago in watercolour, I had never tried them in oils because I was aware that I would have to use an entirely different approach to it and doubted that I could ever paint them as well in this medium as I could manage in the wonderfully luminescent an fluid qualities of watercolour.  Well I was certainly right in this instance.  I'm not at all happy with the outcome of this effort, but like the composition and lighting enough to give it another try later.  I think it would be easier to paint it more slowly with time to dry in between layers, but who knows maybe I'll get the hang of this alla prima painting and manage well rendered flowers this way.  On to the next one.