Peonies

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Peonies

7" x 5" Oil on Stretched canvas. Just a small study painting done after a painting of the same name by renown artist David A. Leffel. It's no where as nice as his actually painting but good practice for me.

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Fine Art Oil Still Life Peonies

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Renata Cavanaugh

Renata Cavanaugh 04 Aug 2009

Beautifully done John

John Houle
Artist Reply: Thanks Renata :)
Stanley Layman

Stanley Layman 03 Aug 2009

John, you are using a much more painterly approach than David Leffel. The way you are painting is ignoring a single lightsource for your work! Leffel's instructions have stated "Paint the light over the dark". If you are given a choice between lighting your workspace or lighting your subject, light the subject! Grand effort!

John Houle
Artist Reply: Thanks Stanley. What you say smacks of the truth .. Leffel does use a single directional source of light. While I've painted it more with a direct frontal light bathing the whole subject, and you know the worst thing is I wasn't even paying attention to what I was doing ...