Monday, February 27, 2012

Hello World

Here's a new photo taken under natural light.
This one was taken late at night in my studio.
This lone tulip was a pretty good subject - didn't quite hold still, but she did okay. The longer I painted the more the flower opened up, but I'm happy with the way it turned out. I feel that I got the values correct and everything fell into place. It reminds me of a Paul Mann painting the way he only uses 3 values when he paints for magazines. I like the fact that I was able to nail the values and keep my brush strokes clean. Sorry about the glare and the bad lighting, but one of these days I'll get a photo cube and hopefully eliminate that problem. Until then I'll just wait til I have good daylight and re-shoot. It may take several days - we have snow forecasted for most of this week.

I'm not thinking of any good titles so please help me name this one... please post your suggestions.

4 comments:

Julie Olson said...

"Two Lips" (if there were 2 of them)....hmmmm.
It kind of appears to be unwrapping itself, you could call it "Unwrapped". It also appears to be bowing graciously so something to do with that?

I can't wait to frame the ones I bought. Keep up the good work!

Trevor Howard said...

The title - Hello World was along those same lines Julie - a new birth, but I like "unwrapped"!

I'm glad you like your paintings. You being an artist, I thought you might see them and not like them in person. Can't wait to see how you frame them. Send me a picture if you think about it.

Brett & Sari said...

Hey, Trevor! How much for this one!? I LOVE Tulips!

Trevor Howard said...

@Sari Like I said on FB... I'm not sure what my plans are for these tulip series paintings. I may be framing these tulips together and entering them in a show in April. I'll keep you posted.