White as a color

"Glorious" private collection

Painting white flowers is not easy...I actually do not paint

them that often. You really have to use the background

to shape them or invent colorful shades within the flower

to define the white. I've done daisies and this white poppy,

some tulips, peonies and roses. That takes me back to when I first

started painting with watercolors and leaving the white

of the paper was such a challenge. I really layered on the

colors and before I knew it I had created mud! But what

"they" say is true, practice, practice, practice.