White, Six-Petalled Flower From Northern Thailand

This is my second attempt at a bit of free and loose Jean Haines style flower painting. It’s of a white, six-petalled flower from Northern Thailand. I’ve searched the internet for images and that’s the closest I can get to someone putting a name to it.

Main three today were transparent yellow (making its debut), Prussian blue and light red.  Burnt umber was splashed in in places in the bottom half and cadmium yellow and sepia (another debut) were brought in at the end for the bees. I also used some sort of chemical to make the paint extra runny & loosen things up.  The benefit of bringing in transparent yellow to replace (the opaque) lemon yellow is already apparent.  Everything shines a bit more.

And I’m happy with it.  It’s as loose and splattery as I’ve ever been, so that’s progress. With lots of sweeps of paint along the bottom left to top right diagonal, there’s a lot of energy there. A few splatters of paint flung from the brush helped too.  I think it’s spoilt by the bees though.  The bigger bee is the worst bit about the painting but I’m happier with the smaller bee, even if it is almost just a smudge.  This was good enough to go up for sale at the time it was created but has since been taken down.