Lisi's Pink Rose

I've been working on this painting for the last few days. It comes from a photo made by one of my contacts on flickr, Lisi. I wrote to her last week saying how much I liked the photo and asked permission to use her photo as the basis for an oil painting. I liked the rhythmic arrangement of the flower petals, how they danced around. She was delighted (well, wait and see what she thinks now that the painting is done).

I cropped her photo to make it my favorite square shape, I took the pink out and replaced with lighter tones and turquoise, purples, greens and blues (my latest color palette) and voila! The original petal shapes are there, reoriented in a happy way.

I wrote to her today to say the painting was done, but I see she was feeling poorly and is in the hospital. So we'll correspond another time. Well anyway, here it is...


Lisi's Pink Rose
Oil Painting: 18" x 18"
2010