"Glowing Blooms"

"Glowing Blooms"

(Loose Park Rose Collection)

18x24 pastel on paper

2010

Monet once explained, "When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you."

For those who follow my works in progress, you see that I do just that. I apply the basic shape of the color onto the surface, such as the roses. Adding limited details to the rose later, keeping my application to a minimum, avoiding the end result of the rose looking finished or real (as you do in the style of realism).