Peony
This painting is the first of a new series, ten flower paintings.
I returned to the smaller format for this one, which I'll keep to for the rest of the series. When I get to the last one I'll do a bigger one, but won't try to reach quite as far as I did with the fiddle painting, mainly because that one took me too long and was too much of a break from the usual. I wasn't prepared for the difference that painting that size would make.
This painting was done today over about six hours. It's the first one in which I used my home-made maroger medium, having cooked up a batch last week. Made from a mixture of cold pressed linseed oil, gum mastic, litharge and pure gum turpentine, it took me two goes to get a reasonable result. More on the medium when I get time to post about it.