When I was visiting Malakoff for a workshop this early spring, lovely woman named Norma hosted my stay there. Her home was on a beautiful lake and as she was a former antique dealer, she had a marvelous collection of antique glass pieces. I fell in love with these hand blown amber globes.
We spent an afternoon photographing them and I recently began this painting. It is really slow moving. I'm using new gamboge, permanent rose, winsor red and a bit of quin gold for the globes, greying down some of the reflections in the globes with a speck of winsor green.
The green glass is new gamboge and pthalo blue and Ultramarine Blue. The table top is multi layers beginning with my favorite grey mixture, Ultramarine Blue and Burnt Sienna. It has wonderful granulating properties and the pigment separates. To this I added shots of undersea green, quin rose and a bit of the leftovers in the palette. In between I added layers of new gamboge and some of the orange mixtures I put together.The facets in the glass are done one at a time. This patch took 3 hours using all the color listed previously with occasional hits of turquoise.
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