Broadway

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This is a painting that started in a tiny moment. It was early May, 2022. I had picked some roses and put them in three small vases on the dining room table. Sometime in the next few days I breezed by the dining room, heading back to my studio. It was late in the afternoon when the sun comes in the bay window on the other side of the table.

My eye caught that light! The light that was coming through the slats of the dining chairs. And it caught those petals! The petals of the roses – and – those on the table as some of the roses lost their grip on them.

Out comes the phone and its camera. I took several, moving the vases around. I’ve learned that it’s great to have options when working with images past the time when I can take more.

Months and months pass, I periodically see the images in Photos on my phone and iPad – and think – that is SO a painting!

It took some re-arranging in Photoshop too. Even with the photos of different views, none were just right. I craved having this view of that rose and the green and blue reflections from this one… and on and on.

Painting it was all over the place. I usually am quite disciplined about painting the background first, working my way through to the roses, but I was feeling the need for rose petals to paint.

Life in 2023 has been very unsettled – with moving the studio, among other discractions from my painting, so it took a while to get through. I started it on a trip to Kauai in October 2022 (I know!) and finished it on the front porch of the little place where we stay there in May, 2023.

What to call it? I kept feeling “dance” or “chorus line.” The name of the brightest colored rose, just right of center is “Broadway.” (This is also the rose that became the painting I called “Nova.”) It’s gorgeous and fragant – one of my favorites. This is it! “Broadway” is a single word that connected with the feeling I got from in this painting. Footlights for showy flowers!

22”x30” – Spring 2023 – Watercolor on paper.