eBay (almost not) Thursday - "Snapdragon 1"

 

It's that time of the week again... 11:47 PM Thursday is still Thursday, right? I bought some Snapdragons and I generated much better results painting them then I did taking photographs of the paintings. The white background makes a mess of processing; if I make it as white as it appears to the eye, the whole image looks burned out, but if I keep the highlights knocked down enough to see the canvas texture, the overall image looks like mud. I did the best I could with the JPGs, but the real articles look much better.

"Snapdragon 1" - 8" x 6" oil on Ray-Mar canvas panel

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eBay Thursday: "Three Orchids"

 
I will call today "eBay Thursday", which is a good day to post a lonely little 10-day auction for a larger-than-small painting. Well, it's almost not Thursday anymore, but posting at 11:30 P.M. local is close enough for government work (now where's my billion dollars?). Painted from a locally purchased Philaenopsis Orchid which happily survived my painting sessions, and now graces the roommate's desk at work:
 
 

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8" x 10" oil on gessoed panel