Beautiful work!

Hey Fonda,
This is a great piece! I love the light in this piece and the way you have used more detail for the drops. Personally, I just got back from 4 weeks in the desert so I will have to use some imagination to create water...this could be interesting!

The End of the Rain

Fonda: Well this challenge has been a bit of a long go for me, as I've mentioned in the previous posts there were a lot of distractions to getting this one out. However, it's finally done. Actually I've had it finished for a while now, but haven't had the time to post to the blog. But I've finally got my whole family out the door to school and work and I'm sitting here with a tea at long last.

I'm pretty happy with this painting. It's in the standard style of painting that I usually do but definitely a little bit more abstract than normal. I took a section from a picture of some lilies in my garden after a rain and cut out just a part of the leaves and raindrops. I really liked the dark shadows and the light colors of the colors of the sun on the leaves that were highlighted by the very white/blue rain drops. The water was pretty hard to paint and if you look closely I did some shading in the water (the rest of the painting is just blocks of solid colors) with some blue and some iridescent copper, which I felt is needed to give it some depth. This technique of mixing two painting style in one painting is something I haven't really done a lot of before (I'm a bit obsessive that way) but I think it's something that might be worth exploring a bit in the future.

Good luck on this one Pascale! I can't wait to see what you produce!