Good Fortune- Painting Peonies

Good Fortune

20 x 20 Oil Painting on Gallery Wrap Canvas
by Pat Fiorello

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 If you've been reading my Facebook page,  you may have seen that earlier this week I bought some coral and white peonies to paint. the coral ones were a little further along so I painted them first.

I did some research on how to cut peonies and stumbled across this video "Peony 101", Martha Stewart interviewing a peony expert and owner of "Peony Envy"- yes it's a real place in Bernardsville NJ.  If you'd like to see the video, click here.

I learned in Chinese culture peonies symbol good fortune, hence the name of this painting. Here are a few images on how I started this painting with a transparent underpainting.