Really enjoyed getting back to oil painting today - even if the finished product looks like something from a 'Help the Aged' competition (flowers bring out the geriatric in me). It's really hard to paint flowers without courting a 'chocolate box' look, especially when the bouquet in question is so garish. But what the hell, I had fun. And learning the basics of painting does require this kind of literal study, old-fashioned as it might be. Alan thought I was being hard on myself, and that my treatment of the blooms was 'very sensitive'. I suppose I'm quite pleased with the flowers themselves, though the leaves and particularly the stems need much more work.
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