Laura Tetrault
Romantic Artwork | Impressionist Paintings | Life on Canvas
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Spring Rain got its beginning a long time before I started it. Flowers and gardening have been a hobby of mine since I was able to make a hole in the dirt with my finger and drop a seed into it. Add the art stuff to the mix and voila - you have a potential botanical painter…
As a result I tend to photograph flora and fauna everywhere I go in order to add them to my reference photo collection. These lovelies were photographed at the Seattle Home and Garden Show. My friend Amelia and I \”escorted\” (read:\”dragged\”) Steve through the exhibition and I am sure I took at least a thousand photographs while they stood around and pretended not to know me.
Believe it or not these flowers were actually a light shade of lime green in real life. I\’ll look up their latin names if you really want to know.
I took a few artistic liberties… in other words I kept the shape of the flowers and most of the composition of my photo and then - well the rest is history. (I have to say at this point that white or light coloured flowers and things are fun to paint because they are never actually really white. If I painted them white they\’d look flat. Our eyes like to fill in information for us that may not actually be there. But that is another post.)
The shape of these flowers got me thinking about another one of my favourites - Magnolias. I love their colour and their elegant simplicity. Looking at the painting now it is kind of obvious that I was thinking about the beautiful tree blossoms because the flowers in Spring Rain came out pink and creamy instead of softly green. I just created my own hybrid! Isn\’t art great?
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