Lantern Festival is one of the many paintings I made when working at the gallery. I do miss the days when I could have eight hours a day to paint. This painting began as an aimless doodle, and a customer who was visiting from China sat down and helped come up with the idea that this girl in the painting was at a Lantern Festival.
The Lanterns were done by putting down a blob of yellow paint, and then dropping in some scarlet lake (a warm red) with the brush. After it was dry the dark brown paint was applied on top. The Chinese symbols were drawn by the customer, but I forgot what they say...'Lantern Festival' is a pretty good guess though.
Lantern Festival, watercolour 5 x 8" cold press, 2003 (No. 1720)
Glad you're keeping up the posts, I really enjoy reading them. It's been fun to see so many new paintings as well as the familiar ones. One day you'll have to post a picture of that amazing Monet you did for your parents' basement. That's still one of my all time favorites... along with the "Waffle House Hopper". I want that one!!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, Happy Birthday Old Man!