Heads or Tails, 2008
Oil on canvas panel
8" x 10" unframed
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As you may recall from my May 21 post, I had two flower paintings accepted for the Orlando Museum 's "1st Thursdays" event. The third entry (which was "rejected") was Heads or Tails, shown here.
Ironically, when I went to check in the paintings at the Museum yesterday morning, the receiving staff asked for Morning Tulips and Heads or Tails! Apparently, there was a mix up, but they took the two flower pieces for the showing.
So, I thought I would show my blog readers what the Museum goers missed last night. Heads or Tails was based on a photograph I snapped in Shanghai on my trip to China in November 2000. Even though, on one hand, Shanghai is a modern mega-tropolis that makes New York City look like a small town, there are still many open air markets and and street vendors that sell "fresh"...really fresh...consumables.
My interest in doing this image was the challenge of painting the exquisite range of reds in the picture. I also enjoyed figuring out how to create the visual texture of fish scales. (I used a piece of plastic mesh.)
Many thanks for taking the time to read my blog. I appreciate your interest, support, encouragement, and comments.
Have a great weekend. See you Monday!
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Images and artwork copyright ©Carol L Adamec. All rights reserved.
As you may recall from my May 21 post, I had two flower paintings accepted for the Orlando Museum 's "1st Thursdays" event. The third entry (which was "rejected") was Heads or Tails, shown here.
Ironically, when I went to check in the paintings at the Museum yesterday morning, the receiving staff asked for Morning Tulips and Heads or Tails! Apparently, there was a mix up, but they took the two flower pieces for the showing.
So, I thought I would show my blog readers what the Museum goers missed last night. Heads or Tails was based on a photograph I snapped in Shanghai on my trip to China in November 2000. Even though, on one hand, Shanghai is a modern mega-tropolis that makes New York City look like a small town, there are still many open air markets and and street vendors that sell "fresh"...really fresh...consumables.
My interest in doing this image was the challenge of painting the exquisite range of reds in the picture. I also enjoyed figuring out how to create the visual texture of fish scales. (I used a piece of plastic mesh.)
Many thanks for taking the time to read my blog. I appreciate your interest, support, encouragement, and comments.
Have a great weekend. See you Monday!
__________________________________________
Images and artwork copyright ©Carol L Adamec. All rights reserved.
