Easter is almost here which means that these little beautiful flowers start popping up in stores everywhere. We call them Easter Lilies (Páskaliljur) but in english I think they are called Trumpet Daffodils. I prefer that name since these aren´t lilies at all.
The main colors I used for the background in this painting were Viridian, Transparent Oxide Red and Cadmium Orange. I painted a very thin transparent layer of these colors to begin with, and then wiped out the spots where the flowers came with a paper towel damped in mineral spirits. That gave me the basic composition. As the painting progressed I added more of that under wash color to build up the values that I wanted behind the flowers. I was surprised to see how much green was in the shadow of the yellow leaves. For this I used a mixture of transparent oxide red, with green and yellow, but this was mixed optically on the canvas which makes for a wonderful lively color effect (to my eyes that is).
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