Thursday, August 01, 2013

Bad Day at the Office


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This one was a total experiment. I was feeling sorry for myself because I had a bad day (before I ever started painting) and so I decided to just do whatever I felt like, screw the outcome. I really liked this rose because it was back-lit and had that cool orange glow-y thing going on, but I couldn't decide on a composition. I landed on a kind of weird crop with a "white" rose to the left. I felt like the little bits of purple in the "white" added a kind a of balance to the yellow...

Daily Paintworks launched the monthly DPW Contest last night! More details...

7 comments:

Kathleen Owings said...

Outstanding painting, Carol! If this was a bad day for you, it certainly came to a FINE end! :)

Bruce Bingham said...

You must have cheered up after painting this- it's spectacular!!!

Amy Hillenbrand said...

Well for someone who was having a bad day this is gorgeous!!! REally spectacular. The new contest on Daily Paintworks is exciting, great idea.

Mary Pyche said...

Thanks again Carol for your inspiration. As a result of this DPW contest page, I found a few more very good artists to follow. I love this flower painting! The colors are luscious.

Kelley Carey MacDonald said...

I'm sorry about your bad day... honey, we all have them, right? Everything will 'right' itself... and look! You came up with a beautiful painting - because it came out of YOU!
xo

Patti Vincent said...

It is beautiful Carol! One of my favorite roses by you.

Dave Casey said...

Looks like another winner to me.