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MEDIUM: Watercolor on Aquabord™ with Scratching
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SIZE: 8" x 8"
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STATUS: For sale, $325 framed in a black Ampersand Floater Frame
"My gorgeous flowering bearded irises inspired this painting, painted immediately after and as a variation to "Iris Glow." It is painted with a limited palette of just the primary colors, red, yellow and blue. They were applied to mix randomly on the 8" white Aquabord* panel and then I added and subtracted paint to sculpt the iris and bud images.
The border stripes were created as my modern version of "French matting," a traditional decorative application of fine lines and marbled papers in the border of a matboard opening. It is a technique used over centuries for exquisitely enhancing the matting of botanical paintings, old master's drawings and other artwork."
This painting is framed in a "floater frame" which allows the entire painting to be seen, none of it covered by matting or framing.
