Red Cactus

Oil, 18x24" More of my old art. Painted 30+ years ago.

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Comment by Roena King on November 19, 2010 at 6:04: Thank you Terry. This is one that took me FOREVER to paint. I wish the photo was good so you could see it, but it is not at all. When I was painting this I painted 1/2 of the flowers and switched to another part of the painting. When I finally got bact to the other 1/2 of the flowers - I had forgotten how I was doing them! OMGosh. I will never do that again. Another problem I had is I was working from a slide - remember those of old where you viewed the photo on a screen? And, I painted this in the winter time where there were no flowers in the pastures to go have a good look. All this seems like a million years ago. LOL Ro

Comment by Roena King on October 17, 2010 at 4:58: Yelena, trust me on this.........I go with what ever interest me at the moment! I can change my mind in a heart beat or the wind blows, but at this time I am trying to focus on landscape painting. "They" say, one needs to paint plein aire to be a good landscape artist. I told a friend that I just did not "see" all these colors out there, and he said if I did not see them then I had not been trained to see them. I had heard of some famous artist in NY that taught all the greats and they painted colored cubes to learn to see. Low and behold - that was in Richard's color class. So, I am determined to learn to see correct color. Color in the highlight, color of the object, and color in the shadow. The kind of light can make it all change too........so color in the sun, color in the cloudy days, etc. Cool/warm color. Since I started "paying more attention" I think I am starting to see different colors in nature. All I know is that New Mexico is very colorful. /// Yelena, go with what you are interested in at the moment.......not doing something because someone else is doing it. I did that some too. Now I am trying so hard to focus on MY goal. Landscape paintings. Ro

Comment by Yelena Akhumova on October 17, 2010 at 4:13: I gave it a second thought and I agreed with you!
I should do something the same but can not make myself to exercise!

Comment by Roena King on October 17, 2010 at 3:09: Yelena, I just started painting again after a long, long time. I had forgotten much. My latest works are in Richard's color class. I am going to continue on with the class until 2011 then I am going to try to paint using what I have learned. I am really trying to be patient and do the exercises as recommended. Ro

Comment by Yelena Akhumova on October 16, 2010 at 17:39: Hey, Roena! I wrote you something in a chat, but I was not sure if it went to you!!!! hahaha!
I checked on latest works, you've done a lot of work.... I'm not sure though... I really think you limit yourself too much!!!!!

Comment by Roena King on October 16, 2010 at 17:31: Thank you so much Yelena. It means a lot coming from you. You are so good! Glad you liked it and thank you for leaving me some feedback! Ro

Comment by Roena King on September 22, 2010 at 20:22: Gail, I am glad you like it, Thanks, I added a lot more the other day. I have it all loaded that I plan on putting I think. I got 1/2 of the cactus painted and was so tired of them, I switched and painted someplace else. When I went back to the cactus, I could not remember how I was doing it. Moral of story......dont stop in the middle of something in the painting! LOL I bet it took me weeks to paint this thing.