A Glass of Orchid

9 x 12 "

oil painting on panel

Getting more mileage of the orchid plant. As you can see, this is not planted in a pot. That's because when returning the plant to it's proper place in the window, I broke off a piece. That piece is what's in this glass vase. This time, instead of trying to copy exactly each petal, I just tried to get the feeling of the orchidness of the flower. That's unlikely to be a word. I also set the vase on a piece of glass and used backlighting. The photo seems bluer than the painting, although the color temperature of the piece is cool, probably because of the backlighting and the transparency of the flower. I may take another photo to see if I can tell what happened on the lighting of the shot.