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Gardenia Portrait

4"x4" acrylic on hardboard panel
sold - private collection

Flowers can be terribly tricky, can't they? And gardenias, too, all those creamy porcelain curves... definately one of those all-of-the-colors-in-white things. But the curves came out beautifully, and I believe I got the values right, and the colors feel good- I'm beginning to get over my fear of phthalo blue :) And then the whole apartment smells like gardenias now, that's a wonderful thing.

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