National Rose Month: Day 29

The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love – the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.

—Dorothea Dix

 

I wanted to create a painting of a tangle of flowers from my garden that included lilies, roses and coneflowers—abundance from the month of June. I used contrast of value and thickness of paint to create the focal point on the roses, reserving the impasto and lightest value to draw the attention to the creamy pink blooms.

Summer Sonata
Framed painting: $595 plus shipping
(10 x 10 inches, oil on panel)