This is my big painting I was working on up until mid semester, and some other little studies/sketches. I don't know if you can tell, but it's really big! Our assignment was to pick an object and develop a concept based on that object. It was a long process just developing my idea and experimenting with a lot of different stuff (you could see some of the experiments i did on the small canvases below my painting). My object was a flower...as i was making a study of it, it just died on me. so then i decided to go along with the concept of life and death/vulnerability and really capture flowers in their dying stages. I used a lot of texture - i made a really really really thick layer of gesso and glued flowers all over the canvas. then i painted over the flowers with gesso and white oil paint. All the pigment that you see on the flowers is their natural pigment as they dry up...no colored paint was added!!
Sorry these pics came out kinda dark. I'll try photoshoping them later.
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