JO REIMER: Calla Lily

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Calla Lily - finished

Calla Lily
22 x 30"
acrylic on paper

Here's the completed painting. I like it more every time I come back to have a look. If you click on the image you'll be able to see some of the detail. I'll put it away and put up another sheet of paper and see what happens.

2 comments:

Bren Graham Thebeau5:09 PM PDT
Love the simplicity and wonderful contrasts in colour. Amazing what the fine detailing does to finish out a piece.
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Elizabeth St. Hilaire Nelson2:39 PM PDT
I love the way the lily cuts through the blue space! Very nice Jo, as usual.
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Art Tip: brush cleaning

As I work with acrylic medium for glue or with acrylic paints I stand my brushes in a bucket of water on my work table and give them a soap and water cleanup every day or so. But eventually my brushes get gunky and sometimes I forget to clean them. That's when I clean them with Murphy's Oil Soap. I keep an inch of MOS mixed 1:1 with water in a tall plastic tub (Feta from Costco) and put caked brushes in that solution overnight. By the next day the soap has softened the brush and with a bit of elbow grease I can get the brushes back to useable. This also works for brushes used with oil paint. I gave up using oils but wanted to save those good brushes and Murphy's Oil Soap came to the rescue. Get it at the grocery store.