In a flash the day after Thanksgiving, the decor of America’s stores changes from orange, to red and green. I love to buy amaryllis bulbs each year and wait for their gorgeous red blossoms to emerge. Mine are just sending up green shoots, but I found my painting from a previous holiday season.
When you flip an abstract painting around, sometimes you find a different perspective that you prefer.
Here are two views of the same painting.
Which do you like better?
As I painted this, I said to myself: Forget the real background or shadow colors of the lemon I’m looking at (this is art, not photography, after all). Since purple is the opposite of yellow on the color wheel, and how can I mix several shades of bluish purple to make the lemon pop?
