Glee

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The wish for some easy, delight-filled painting time during the summer of 2023 inspired this one. Pink and orange are a very favorite color combination. There are no other flowers that get me than roses.

It’s another view into the opulent boquet of roses that became Lavish. I squished the roses all in together with Photoshop, since the bouquet is years past. The bush itself is also gone. It didn’t survive a garden remodel in Anne and Gary’s front yard. These two paintings will have to be the rest of the story.

As is the way with making art in the real world, my fantasies about this being skip-it-y-do-da kind of painting evaporated fairly early on. The mostly orange rose, tucked into the shadow in the center-right gave me fits. I got it too dark and murky. I have come to terms with the reality that as long as I paint, there will be stuff like this I’ll be faced with. There will always be parts of paintings I wish I could start back with bare paper. But, this is watercolor and the process has its limitations. Nevertheless, I am happy – enough – with it in the end.

I have no idea where the name came from, exactly. Glee just sounded right. The mood I was hoping for as I painted – and – a combination of harmonizing voices.

Summer 2023 – 22″x22″ – Watercolor on paper