Greenery

This week, the DPW  challenge proposed a choice of 3 color schemes: complementary, split-complementary or triadic

oil on canvas 10"x12"

. Ok, I can understand, for the complementary, but split-complementary, triadic?No.
After several researches, several readings, I chose one,so,  I painted, and once it was done, I realised  that I'd chosen another one, which was not requested, the analogous scheme- colors following on the wheel-in my case, green, green-yellow and yellow.
And here is the result.

Cross swords

oil on canvas 6"x6"

 This painting was done for PADT  challenge.
For once, I gave a new try to my Artisan  water mixable oils.
When I begun  painting with oil (late 2009), I used them, but was not satisfied, and bought "normal" oil painting.
This time, I was quite glad with Artisan, but I have not a very large amount of colors, so it's restricting, but it was ok for the cherries!

Road trip



oil on canvas paper 6"x8"

 This was the second landscape  proposed by Carol Marine for her  previous DPW challenge.It was another study about the greens, mainly with phtalo green (I have a huge tube), light yellow, indigo.I painted it with brushes first, then with a knife. The moment I took the picture, the left side on the bottom was not quite dry, due to the thickness of the paint…

Where are the girls?



OIL ON CANVAS 8"x10"

This was painted for the weekly  DPW challenge.I used my own picture of a rooster in my neighbourhood I took the other day.Michèle & Hervé bought it recently, because they lost 1 of their  4 hens ,which was run over by a car when it crossed without care, the little road , where they live.Arsène, the rooster, is now there present to keep them from their frivolity, and it works!  It's a Sussex type.

After having plodded along for ages…

oil on board 8"x10"

 It was painted for DPW challenge of this week.I wanted to do a quick painting, and, as often, I reworked, and reworked..
As I wanted to use several purples ( I am usually inclined to give this color to  my roads ) , I did a golden acrylic under painting.I changed a lot of times the trees in the background: at the beginning they were too strong, then too pale…I wanted to use a recipe with French ultramarine, violet, viridian, white, before noticing at the end that my green was not a viridian(which is an equal combination of blue and green), so the result was not what I expected.
My(other) bête noire was the tree in the foreground, I have to learn about those trees!
In  any case, I had fun to paint that.

BZZ…

oil on canvas board 6"X6"

This was painted for Artistic Sentiments challenge.
I was a little upset about the flower, I don’t know this type and was not sure about the shape.Maybe I’d ought  to add something at the bottom left to root it?
N'étant pas familiarisée avec cette fleur, j'avais des difficultés de reconnaissance , et j'ai essayé de prendre une photo d'une abeille, il y en avait beaucoup cette semaine, mais ce n'était pas convaincant non plus!

Red currant bush

oil on canvas board 5"x7"

One of the first blossoming in our garden.

COFFEE POT

OIL ON BOARD 5"x7"

The DPW subject, this week, was to paint a white object, so I chose this pot I'd just bought last Sunday,at a "vide-grenier", for a song.We had to use only primary and secondary colors, and it was very funny to do it!  

TWO CAMELIAS

oil on board 5"x7"

Another painting for DPW, I  am not sure, once again , I followed the directions, with one color by stroke, which I 'd like to properly understand! It's easy to say, but not easy to do...Those two camelias were the first flowers in my garden, but  you cant' say on the picture what they are!I am aware maybe it's a little weird, because the potery vase has a tiny opening, it's a soliflore. I took the picture before a window, and painted there, in fact, but was a little sceptic about the background...

Hand towels

oil on canvas board 5"x7"

This one was painted for DPW challenge, which I like because each one chooses one’s own subject that avoids uniformity.
The aim was to paint one color per stroke.I am not sure I strictly followed  that, but I made an attempt, especially  for the background, anyway  I am going to make other tentative. 

Viola Cornuta



oil on canvas board 5"x7"


Ces petites fleurs timides fleurissent tout au long de l’hiver, il faut se pencher pour les voir dans l’herbe qu’il va falloir tondre bientôt.
Those little shy flowers last the whole winter, you have to bent to see them in the grass I am going to cut very soon.
This painting, for once, was not made for a challenge, I suppose I need a change, and it’s one,  maybe,  the first time I used a painting knife, it was a start, and a nice experience.Usually I like the details, here I was obliged to leave them, regarding the small size of my painting.

Got a light?



oil on canvas board 6"x6"

 This was painted for DPW challenge this week, we were allowed to use only 2 colors, burnt sienna, ultramarine + white.
Those days, with the onterdiction to smoke, I find strange when I see people smoking, although I used to smoke myself, a long time ago.I am so glad to be delivered from this funest habit!

IN THE OLD DAYS...

I

oil on board 6"x6"

painted this coffee jar for PADT challenge,I've never saw this style of pot, but it's nice, it could be convenient, I suppose.

Mignonne, allons voir si la rose…(Pierre Ronsard)

oil on canvas paper 5"x7"

This was done for DPW challenge this week, it was the 1st time I painted a rose, I think.

Do you like fuchsias?

oil on canvas paper 5"x7"

I am aware I have no plant of fuchsia in my garden, although I like them, their little bells; so I am planning to grow them in April, I have to find a place in the half shade.
This was painted for Artistic sentiments, and will be sent by mail to a friend of mine, her birthday is the 28th of this month, she likes flowers.