Glowing Iris
A pretty oil painting that has a unique characteristic about it. When a light is placed just above the “Glowing Iris” painting to shine down upon it, the Iris flower will appear to have a glow around itself. The warm glow then radiates outward into the sky area and lower landscape.
The vision of the “Glowing Iris” is to capture the viewers eye in the lower left portion of the painting on the pathway where it meets with the stem of the flower. Your focus is pulled along the pathway as the path moves into the background and fades some. As the curving path reaches upward towards the sky and your eye moves along the same route. The top pedals of Iris flower is where your gaze comes to rest and as you take in the warm relaxing glow around the flower. In time the rich darker lower painted pedals demand your attention and down the stem your focus goes to start the visual journey all over again. It is a visual loop with artist oil painted colors.
The painting of the sky area was done using colors Cobalt Blue, Halo Blue, Crimson and Indian Yellow. It is Indian Yellow which gives a warm glowing effect around the Iris flower. If you are painting a similar sky painting remember that keep the yellow oil paints from the blue oil paints is necessary in keeping sky area from turning green. In this painting Crimson was used as a barrier between the Indian Yellow and Blues to avoid wrong color variations. If your an oil painting artist, color techniques using Indian Yellow can be found in the home workshop painting DVD video by artist Byron Pickering entitled “The Wild Sea”.
