- Go shopping for groceries at the Atwater Market
- Fall in love with colourful peonies along the way
- Buy them and bring them home
- Try them out in every vase or container
- Pick the antique Royal Limoges vase … it’s the most beautiful and it’s all about love. We love LOVE.
- Smile a big smile … enjoy the bouquet and imagine the spectacular painting that’s about to happen
- Place the bouquet on a table near the window. Turn it around, find the best angle & the most flattering light
- Choose the ideal canvas size to honour this glorious sight. In this case … lusciously large!
- Decide on the composition, mark it on the canvas
- Put Bryan Ferry’s “As Time Goes By” album on the Bose player. Play it so loud that I can’t hear myself think.
- Colour the canvas with light washes of paint and … and let the games begin!!!
- Paint the background!
- Paint the greens!
- Paint the flowers & sing!
- Paint the vase!
- STOP. Look. Don’t judge. Call it … “Crazy Love”.
- Put it away. Don’t look at it. Start another painting. Go to the gym. Walk the dog …
- Bring it back much later. Ask it … what do you want? What do you need?
- Look and listen. It tells me. I follow through, tweaking and fine tuning … until the magic happens.
- I sign it. I varnish it … and I share it with you. E N J O Y !
Crazy Love 48″x36″ An Original Painting by Susan Pepler SOLD