Three Odd Bottle Buddies

Daily Painting Challenge - Day 10... and Featured Artist Spotlight Interview with Daily Paintworks! 

Yesterday, I was thrilled to receive an email from Daily Paintworks - they have asked if I would like to be their next Featured Spotlight Artist! And of course I would love to!

Here's what this means:

• I get a featured interview that is published on DPW blog and in their daily emails for a week.
• They run a competition for a week to give away one of my paintings.
• Any artwork I post gets to be listed at the top of the daily 'What's New' page for a week.
• My giveaway painting will be featured on the Daily Paintworks facebook page.

Competitors will be eligible to win my painting if they've purchased a painting from Daily Paintworks within the last 30 days - or if they buy one during the week of the competition. 

Here is the interview:
Spotlight Interview


So happy to have been asked to do this. I'm actually going to use this painting I did today for the giveaway. I'm very happy with the composition. I like the tall gangly-looking roses sitting in their little bottles. I had to use a smaller brush than I usually use. As the painting is only 8 x 8 inches there's a lot to fit in! Those rose heads are really tiny!
 

About the three bottles:

• The green one I picked up for next to nothing at a tag sale. I'm assuming it's a very old bottle as its looks very vintage.
• The middle bottle is one of those frosted glass bottles that is popular at the moment. The 'frosting' was a bit of a challenge -the rose stem sort of fades away and the frosting kind of diffuses most of the reflected light.
• The final bottle was from a set of 3 identical bottles I got in the bargain bin at Target. A massive $1 for all 3 (I'm such a big spender). Always good to be on the lookout for this sort of thing (my husband wouldn't agree: "are these bottles multiplying?").

(8 x 8 inches)
20 x 20cm approx
Oil on Gessobord  

All Is Rosy

Daily Painting Challenge - Day 9

Another rose from the same bunch as yesterday, I got into observing all the variations of color I could see in the shadows in-between and under the rose petals.
I have found that when trying to capture roses, the painting goes through an 'ugly stage' where it doesn't look much like anything. You have to fight your way past this stage - eventually a likeness of a rose emerges.

(6 x 6 inches)
15 x 15cm approx
Oil on Gessobord 

January Rose

Daily Painting Challenge - Day 8

This rose study almost turned out a bit Georgia O'Keeffe abstract-ish. Not sure how that happened. Sometimes it just happens.
I'm 1/4 of the way into my 31 day challenge now and using the opportunity so far to tackle flowers which I find difficult to do.

(6 x 6 inches)
15 x 15cm approx
Oil on Gessobord