Garden Hydrangeas

Garden Hydrangeas
16 x 16 Oil Painting
by Pat Fiorello
$1250

    

Spring is in full bloom in Atlanta. My husband cut these beautiful hydrangeas for me from our garden and  I arranged them in the studio. The set up is below.   "Garden Hydrangeas" is my interpretation of this arrangement.

Lately I've been concentrating my art on more of how I feel. It's more important to have a painting that feels alive and shows the paint quality with expressive brushstrokes than to paint exactly what's there. It's freeing to just paint what I want to be there and how I feel about it.  I've summed that up in a new statement of my artistic voice: "Classic Beauty. Alive with Color, Paint and Passion." This is what excites me about painting and what I want my paintings to convey.

Below are some steps along the way to creating this painting.

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General  size and placement

Blocking in the darkest value shapes

Adding the next darkest value- the shadows

Starting to Block in the flower shapes

Adding a rough block in of the supporting elements

The inspiration from my garden

Celebration!

Celebration!
16 x 20 Oil Painting
by Pat Fiorello



 I've been really doing a lot of introspection lately on my authentic artistic voice and what I want more of or less of in my art. I've been clear for a long time on the subject matter that speaks to my heart - flowers, gardens, beautiful  romantic or lush, sunny places, like Italy, Bermuda, France. 

 This year is my 25th anniversary of when I began my artistic journey and it almost feels like it was an accident, but I know that it was revealed to me as part of my true path and purpose to "create a world of beauty, love and inspiration".  

So I know pretty much what I want to paint and why I want to paint it, but now focusing on the how. Not the "how" as in basic foundational /technical skills. But "how" in terms of expression. The main areas I want to focus on now are having my paintings feeling alive-  having what I'll call "A Life Force" and having visual interest thru paint quality, thick paint,  rich, exciting color and visible, expressive, luscious brushstrokes.

So this was the first painting where I was really clear on focusing on those things and letting go of some old concerns of drawing and getting things "right".  It was really freeing and exciting so I am committed to exploring this path for now.

I consider this painting a "breakthrough painting", one in which you take a clear jump forward. I called it "Celebration" as both a celebration of the joy of flowers and a celebration of my own progress and growth over the past 25 years of creating art.

Below are photos of the initial idea sketched in my hotel room on their pad ( I was on a trip to Melbourne), the approximate set up ( didn't have all the real subject materials so had silk flower "stand-ins"), some of the progression shots along the way and some brushstroke close-ups.

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