5" x 7" oil on gesso board
My camera had a hard time with this photo, distorting values and colors as usual...Either way, this is an interesting little painting. I used a palette of quinacridone purple, cadmium orange, and viridian green because when I sat in my lawn chair, eating lunch and thinking about this painting the day before, that's what I saw. I took a photo and did my best to premix values before I went outside because I knew the light would change quickly. I painted this between 12 and 1pm. The color combination made it tough to match the variety of colors, especially the greens, but I think it worked and it was more about the values anyway. The round thing in the lower left quadrant is a soccer ball that my dog, Riley, has been slowly chewing through the last two years. That's her water dish just above the ball. I really like the greenish shadow on the flower pot in front and the mid value orange on the ball. The chair is actually black, and I could have made it nearly back, but I felt like that would distract from the ball and the flower pot.
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