Rose Trio

Rose Trio
8 x 10 Oil Painting
by Pat Fiorello
 $300

 


A past watercolor student of mine is transitioning to oil and asked to have a private painting lesson. She wanted to see how I worked in my studio, what materials I used, and how I approached the painting process. So we set up a 2 hour session where she came to my studio and watched me at work and asked questions along the way.

I demonstrated one of the various methods I use which I consider the free-est, loosest of all the approaches and I find it particularly useful for floral, garden type subject.

I lay in masses for where the flowers will generally go. No specific line drawings, just the overall shape in the darkest value  I see using transparent colors only. Then I add in the background. Once the whole canvas( or in this case gessoboard) is covered, then I begin adding the lighter shapes on top with more opaque paints, working back and forth, re-establishing dark accents if I lose them. At some point ( the last photo)  I scraped off the whole background as I felt it was getting to be too much of the same everywhere.  Ultimately, I wanted the flowers which are the main attraction to be more defined and the background to be more abstract and softer edged. The end result, Rose Trio is pictured above.