FRANCINE GAUDET
Red Peppers
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FRANCINE GAUDET
Pomegranate and Burns' Bowl
Francine's fist commissioned botanical painting... harkening back to one of her first pieces... another luminous pomegranate.
This time nestled in a delicate Korean ceramic bowl, the two elements create a play of complimentary shapes and colours, grounded by the gentle shadow beneath. In contrast to her first pomegranate painting, largely executed in layered washes, here Francine uses a lot of dry-brush work to build the textures in the pomegranate skin and in the surface of the bowl.
Usually a quick and loose painter Francine slowed herself down considerably to create this rich and layered gem, without losing that characteristic expressive and sensual quality that makes her work so much her own.
I've included this close up to show off some of that lovely detailing and brushwork.
FRANCINE GAUDET
Garlic Bulb - Stinking Rose
Francine named this painting Stinking Rose!
The papery skin is almost petal-like with some very nice shadow work. There is a great sense of weight and lightness to this quiet painting. She's taken this papery theme a step further in her next painting of Cape Gooseberries... stay tuned...
Birch Bark
This centuries-old piece of bark was found in the walls of Francine's ancestral home in Nova Scotia, insulation material for pioneers!
After much study and sketching this painting was completed, with all it's curls and soft colour variations, a silent witness to the past.
Sometimes the walls do have ears, if not human...
Snake Plant
This is Francine's most recent painting and a departure from the past insofar as she worked very slowly on this one. Usually a fast painter, her steady and careful pace allowed her to capture the finely detailed markings on this plant, and the electric glow of the acid yellow undertone.
Below is a photo of the piece before it acquired its full colour.
Squash
Moving back in time, this is Francine's previous painting. Much looser than the Snake Plant, she has created the strong sense of dimensionality characteristic of all of her works.
Below is a painting she did of a section of the inside of the Squash just before it turned green and, sadly, passed away...
Pomegranate
I've placed the detail of this painting first because it's so delicious!!
A terrific little jewel of a painting... all round and heavy and glowing...
And here's the whole picture, which Francine then had printed and folded to create a beautiful Christmas card, the painting on the front and the drawing on the back.
This pomegranate was Francine's 2nd only botanical watercolour painting.
She is now working on a rather dramatic little carnivorous plant... coming soon!
MERLE SANDEBRAND
Slipper Orchid
Merle decided to try reproducing a painting with the help of Billy Showell's book "Painting Flowers".
She
commented that the process helped her learn how to move the paint and
loosen her fear of "losing control of the whole thing!"
Merle has become much more confident about painting since this process, as the elegant results of her efforts show.
LYNDA WHITE
Chocolate Cosmos
After
much struggling with these challenging dark blooms Lynda did an admirable
job of finding her colours and trying to create that velvety surface.
Lynda enjoyed painting the small details in the seeding flower head with it's playful curls.
Vine
A very elegant composition. The actual painting is much finer than the photograph!
Pomegranate
This is only Francine's second painting, beautifully modeled and luminous.
She used it to create an exquisite Christmas card.
STEPHANIE FOISY
Bonsai Orange Tree
Stephanie spent many weeks doing studies of the bark of this tree to really understand how to paint it before attempting a finished piece. She tried many ways of approaching the tiny details in the bark, and refined her colours over time.
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