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By the Window, oil on canvas painting was made this spring. I’ve visited an old building, quiet a special place. A window with white curtains was opened in the kitchen, sipping first spring sunlight into a rather dark place. And the flowers on the old blue table seemed even brighter, sending joy of spring into modest hose…….
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New painting, just finished still life painting, White Roses on my Window, oil on canvas, 50x70cm.
Currently working hard on a special project, yet this crisp white roses bouquet was just too appealing painting motif to let it fade away…..now back to my project 😉
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Sketch in watercolor:
I’ve been cleaning my studio a bit these days and look what have I found! A sketch of mine, from 2017. I still remember how tender looked the snowdrops, just picked, in an eggshell porcelain vase from Japan. I made a small watercolor after this sketch and yes, I ‘ve painted a snowdrops bouquet in oil, too! Can’t wait to spot the first snowdrop of this spring in the garden !!!!
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Cup and saucer by the window finished today!
I am happy with my new still life. Oval format of the painting is the one I love to work with.
Yet this time it has been extremely difficult for me, as in January I’ve lost my dear friend. The one we’ve been friends since we’ve been girls, the one we’ve had billion coffees together to talk life, careers, families, kids, gardening……But on the other hand working on has been the best remedy for my broken heart.
I’ve picked the objects for this still life intuitively, placed them by the window in my studio. One cup with saucer, remaining there in the room, by the window, overlooking landscape, hills and sky. It is sunny outside, the cup and saucer shine in the sun light of January as I keep asking Where is the boundary between outside and inside, sorrow and sun, now and then, here and the future………..
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Still life with cabbage, garlic, quince and flowers was finished in fall, 2019.
Setting this still life was easy, sort of impulsive. I’ve been following the strong colors of some fruit, vegetables in the kitchen. It has obviously started with the purple violet cabbage, just gorgeous color calling me to paint it. By the way, anthocyanins are the pigments giving the red cabbage its strong color. Then garlic, crisp white but with slight violet shades. Ripe yellow quince. Flowers from the garden. And the blue glass for the smaller bouquet! Sunlight in fall is special, soft and warm, giving special nuances to objects. And in an ununderstandable way telling the year has just turned around, the winter coming to end the eternal cycle for this year. I guess this was just the mood I’ve been in painting this still life. And I am quiet happy with how has it turned out, catching all those strong colors, but in a way calming them down, playing with background of the painting.
Anthocyanins (also anthocyans; from Greek: ἄνθος (anthos) “flower” and κυάνεος/κυανοῦς kyaneos/kyanous “dark blue”) are water-soluble vacuolar pigments that, depending on their pH, may appear red, purple, blue or black. Food plants rich in anthocyanins include the blueberry, raspberry, black rice, and black soybean, among many others that are red, blue, purple, or black. Some of the colors of autumn leaves are derived from anthocyanins.[1][2] from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthocyanin
Anthocyanins belong to a parent class of molecules called flavonoids synthesized via the phenylpropanoid pathway. They occur in all tissues of higher plants, including leaves, stems, roots, flowers, and fruits. Anthocyanins are derived from anthocyanidins by adding sugars.[3] They are odorless and moderately astringent. from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthocyanin
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Three lemons still life just finished!!
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Art studio painting in progress
Absolutely heartbroken, losing my dear close friend, I saw the world around me dissolving in small patches hidden behind the tears. With all the will power I could squeeze out of me, I’ve started to rearrange these patches back into pictures, giving colors to life and hope to a new dawn.
Still life, work in progress, oil on canvas
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Snowdrops are among the first flowers of spring in our country. No matter how cold the winter might be, they would find their way to show up, always. Each spring snowdrops paint whole white carpets under trees .What a view!
But there is much more diversity in these uniformly white galaxy as one could assume at a first glimpse.These white flowers may change shape,their pattern is far from uniform,mutations provide new shapes. But the sad truth is all these variants are mostly not stable in nature. So it actually is a hard work to cultivate a Galanthus nivalis cultivar of even a slight difference. And the good news? Once stable form will propagate with bulbs-by means of Fibonacci sequence which means:0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89 etc!
Anyhow, the first snowdrops bouquet each year brings the promise of warmer times to come. Tiny flowers themselves make just a small bouquet that doesn’t last much time, so flower shops usually don’t keep them. It was quite a surprise as I got a small white galanthus bouquet, nicely wrapped in red paper! I painted this still life immediately, presenting white flowers in red paper in crystal glass vase. Definitely a Galanthomania of my own!!!!