Summer Lilac

Sweet fruits, fragrant flowers and the buzz of insects. For me, this is the epitome of the wonderful abundance of summer!
The diversity and perfection of nature is my inspiration. When creating this "food pattern", colors guided me. I have always loved the combination of green and magenta.
To create a "food pattern" like this, the first thing I do is look for my "stars". In this case it was the ripe avocados and the fragrant lilac.
Most of the time I create a large amount of different photos, from which I choose several. From them I then combine the actual painting.
I start with soft pastels (like Unison, Terry Ludwigs, Schmincke and Sennelier) and apply the finer structures with pastel pencils at the end. My fingers are the most important tool in creating the different layers. Rarely do I use wipers.
My paper (Lennox100 from Legion Paper) is glued to a wooden corpus of 3.5cm thickness and the painting stretches around the corners of the support.