It has been uncharacteristically warm this winter in Vancouver, and it’s not yet even spring but many of the cherry blossoms are already in full bloom. It feels a bit like we’ve skipped a couple of months ahead in time…
Last month I worked on the above painting(s). It tooks me a few hours over two days, and it was a colour study and sketch to loosen up my painting a bit. I like how it turned out, so the set of four are now in frames on my living room wall. The canvases are 16″ x 20″ each, oil on canvas. They add a nice punch of colour to the walls, and it’s almost like looking out a window onto a bright sunny day when we do get those rainy gray days in Vancouver.
Painting miniatures and larger detailed work can make my paintings feel very tight if I don’t work looser once in a while. So this painting was a quick study to help me do just that. While it’s still a few months early for roses to be out, with how things are going now, I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw roses coming up in April!