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Here I have started scumbling the green of the bottle, and worked more on the shell.

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Today I made an excursion to The Brandywine River Museum. I saw a few works I haven't seen by Andrew Wyeth before, including a watercolor of a metal tankard sitting on a windowsill, painted on a thank you letter written by A. Wyeth, it was a wonderful treat. I also saw a Tempera by N.C. Wyeth of an island in Maine that was wonderful (Whale Island might have been the title.) My eyes are always pleased to feast on the works in this museum.

Here I started laying in the white table top, getting the bottle ready for a transparent glaze or scumble and laying down the first parts of the shell. The painting seems to be moving along, and it's letting me know which parts need attention and in which order.

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This is the painting after 5 hours of working.

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Here I am trying to work on laying in the color of the Alium first, as it is the object that will change the fastest.

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Hello to everyone,

I thought I would post some images of the current paintings I'm working on. This painting grew out of my interest in the Globe Allium. My father owns a flower shop and occasionally he will get these in. What draws me to them is their simple spherical shape, that is, when you get closer composed of many tiny lavendar flowers. It is placed in a wine bottle, of some very good New Zealand wine I discovered recently.