Swan Song
Swan Song | 8x10in. | oil on illustration board | Aaron Miller | sold
Painted for a charity event; Pottery Barn presents Picture a Cure for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
If you live in the area the event takes place Dec. 8 @ 7pm at the Lincoln Park Pottery Barn. It will be available for sale that night only!
here’s a link to the flyer:
This gave me an opportunity to push my painting to marry the plein air feel with a reference photo. And I wanted to experiment with a new limited palette.
Here’s a link to the palette:
limited palette
A few of these colors you might not need as they can easily be made some of the other colors. I had the tubes on hand and thought I’d see if they made any real difference. I’m not crazy about the naples yellow I had. I know I instantly swiped at the light yellow and added some white.
Hello!You say you would have done the Black Swan one differently If you had seen the film, avhing seen the film I think your piece is a fantastic representation.I only found you and your website today via a friend posting a like to your Deviant Art page on my Facebook. I love your work and will try to keep an eye out for it! B
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