Crafting Prizewinners
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Crafting of Prizewinners...
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How 'Nasturtiums' was Crafted
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The nasturtiums
are from my own garden. I usually wait till the right season
of the year when they are rampant with leggy new growth, then
they can drape out the vase and around the painting. I arrange
and rearrange until the composition is right. In the meantime
the nasturtiums sulk and the leaves droop. After an
hour or so the plant begins to perk up again and it is then
I do the final attangment and I'm ready to begin. |
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The prussian blue background comes next and I fill in the
fine pattern of the leaf stems as I go. The reason I have photographs
of the various stages of the winning paintings is that my husband
is a photographer and shoots each stage of most of my large
works. Thus, many of the paintings that win a prize have photographs
of how they were painted. |
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I pick a few fresh flowers and scatter them in the foreground
before I start the detail on the tablecloth. |
'Nasturtiums'
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The hard work of
the tablecloth is balanced by the joy of adding the highlights.
This is the longest stage of the painting perhaps taking up
to three quarters of the time. |
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