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Pastels are a natural medium for painting the beautiful colors and textures of flowers. With a wide variety of strokes, marks, dots and the unique ability to blend colors, flowers can be rendered in realistic or imaginative styles.
For both paintings of flowers, I have used a more dynamic perspective, that draws you in as opposed to a literal rendition. Examples are The Goldfish, Bowl of Apples on a Table, 1916 of Henri Matisse and Paul Cezanne's La Vase Paille, 1895.
The flowers and chair are both more detailed and modeled while the door behind them is less so. The sky and view behind the door and window of the other flower painting are suggested. The effect is to give the subjects of the paintings a much stronger forward focus and emphasis. This technique was frequently used by Paul Gauguin. Examples are Still Life with Apples, Pear and Ceamic Portrait Jug, 1889, Portrait de Madeleine Bernhard, 1888 and Maternite, 1899. Bouquet de Fleurs by Marc Chagall is another example.
Not only are my flowers colorful but the whole painting is an expressive use of color suggestive of their essence. An example is Marc Chagall 's On the Roof of Paris. Color is used express the energy, activity and excitement of Paris.
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