Plumeria - finished!

I've taken a break a good part of this week because suddenly my social calendar got all filled. I joined Corpus Christi's New Neighbor League... oh my gosh, those gals are social butterflies! I'm going to have to start saying no to half of their invitations so i have the time to paint! But I think I've finally finished this one, which gives me two weeks to complete the third painting in my tropical floral series. April 1 I hang them at Desiree's Cafe at the Art Center of Corpus Christi, where they'll hang for three months.

Pigments for the flowers were quin pink, quin rose, alizarin, quin coral, new gamboge. Foliage was primarily M Graham's Azo Green (okay, I'm now officially in LOVE with this color) and phthalo blue... it makes a beautiful green! I also used cobalt with the green mixture for blue-greens and WN perelene green for some darks. My old black standby is alizarin with phthalo green and I darkened my green mixtures with that as well. The Azo Green glazes over the top of the leaves really brightened up areas I wanted bright. Cobalt was used to make lavenders with the quin colors.