Tulip Bouquet Painting Size:48"x48" sunlit brushwork

sunlit brushwork

deep green or warm timber tones

Four vivid tulips rise from the shadows in this richly worked oil study

petals built up in glossy curved strokes that catch the light while the leaves twist away in long ribbons of deep and silvery green

white and yellow wildflowers

Tulip Bouquet Painting Size:48"x48" sunlit brushworkScarlet, ivory and a single butter yellow tulip lean out of a porcelain vase decorated with small coral and blue flowers. The oil handling is classical and patient, petals built up in glossy curved strokes that catch the light while the leaves twist away in long ribbons of deep and silvery green. Behind the bouquet the background dissolves from warm olive into near black, so each bloom comes forward as though lit by one tall window. A single fallen