Peony / Noblesse Oblige award

Carrie Jacobsen has given me this Noblesse Oblige award. Thank you, Carrie! You can go visit her site and look at her wonderful animal paintings and read her fun posts (especially the most recent one about alizarin crimson... Oy), and see a more detailed description of the attributes an awardee should possess. But in brief, it's that the more "power" you have, the more you are expected to give back. In art blogging terms, this has a lot to do with sharing process and solutions.

I in turn pass this award on to Loriann Signori, Leslie Saeta, and Karen Phipps. 

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Leaf 4

Well, there was one more old leaf I found in my pile of objets. I was glad to see it, but painting it was extremely frustrating. It's hard to determine, in a translucent subject, what exactly is light vs. shadow vs. reflected light. Like so many things in painting, it's something that seems like it should be pretty much straightforward, but once you start doing it, you realize that in fact it is not so cut-and-dried. In the end I was happy with it, though.

$115.00 - Leaf 4 (Ready to Frame)

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