White Oleander Painting
Do you see white flowers?
Aha, it is a White Oleander, the one that is growing down my street.
This yet poisonous (see the story here ) but such beautiful bush amazes me each time when I take a walk in the neighborhood.
And now I'll explain why I asked about white:
I painted these Oleander flowers without using any white color, and on a top of it there is not even a spec of white paper left on the painting. Before I began to paint, I made a good "rainbow-ie" wash on the paper. Then I dried it nicely, reserved the space for the middle of the flowers and started playing with one wash after another on the flowers' surface.
Yet the real magic began when I worked on the background. The so-rather-not-white flowers all of a sudden became united and quiet white against the dark of the background colors.
I love that kind of magic!!
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Original painting White Oleander is 20"x16" on 300lb Arches professional watercolor paper
