Painting 11/30: "A Rose Among the Thorns"

"A Rose Among the Thorns"

7"x5"

Oil on Board

$175

I'll admit....this one was frustrating.  I want to paint beautiful roses and it....is....so.....hard!!

I fiddled around with it longer than I anticipated, but there are plenty of roses in my vase and tomorrow is another day.  

I took a fantastic workshop from Qiang Huang in 2012 and he paints the most gorgeous roses, incredible brushwork.  He is really someone to study and such a nice person, too!  Study, study, study....paint, paint, paint!  That's what I love about the 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge.  I have in my mind something I want to experiment with or something tough for me to paint and I just keep trying to tackle it with small paintings - sometimes larger ones, like yesterday. 

So because this little thing gave me a frustrated fit, even though I like the way it turned out, 

I'm naming it "A Rose Among the Thorns"!

If you are interested in purchasing this painting, please click this link to take you to my website:

http://barbaradavisart.com/works/1361200/a-rose-among-the-thorns

Thanks, as always, for looking!