It's been a while since I have posted so i have been asked if I am painting infrequently. On the contrary, I am painting with more discipline now. :-) . Just doing larger and more complex compositions. Here is my latest. Ganesh, the elephant headed god with big mums. I love spider and football mums. They are elegant and graceful. The many petals seemed to challenge me to paint. I also love this ganesha that is of tibetan origin. This idol is made of pancha loha or 5 metals (gold, silver, copper, brass and iron/lead. ). The flowers seemed like a nice match with ganesha and I set up this composition. The colors of the idol change in different light and this was a challenge, that I never anticipated before. Didn't want to risk moving the position of my flowers by moving this to a shadow box, lesson learned :-)! I had to stick to painting the idol on cloudy days. After my initial sketches of the composition to determine values and my quick sketch on a 8 x 10.
I started the painting on a 20 x 24 linen canvas. I painted the mums first which have a limited shelflife
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