"Hydrangea Zoom"
18"x24" oil on canvas
- Cindy Mott McGarry
"I decided that if I could paint that flower on a huge scale,
you could not ignore its beauty."
- Georgia O'Keefe
While going through a fascination phase with hydrangea flowers I could not resist examining their beauty on a closer scale. There are so many colors in one single petal. Focusing on shape, color and value helps with decisions that need to be made throughout my paintings. Impressionism and the all wonderful "artistic license" opens up such freedom to use imagination and concentrate on what I really want to see and reveal.
In this painting using small shapes of color became addictive and highly expressive. Pointillism is a method of neo-impressionist painting in which using tiny dots of different pure colors appear mixed in the observer's eye. This method was started by Georges Seurat in order to create a higher degree of luminescense and intensity of color. I believe certain colors laid next to one another cause a glow, or rather, a vibration of colors.
Until next time!
Cindy
www.cindymottmcgarry.com
