From Life: Aloe Vera plant

[ntl]

Aloe Vera plant about 3X5″ on Canson oil paper. Crits and comments welcome, thanks for looking.

 

[Iain]

I like it off

 

[snoball]

I like this and I love the background you've chosen to use. I would never thought to use a background so similar to the coloring of the subject but it works beautifully. Love it.

 

[ntl]

Wow, lain, I do too! Thanks for the change of view.

Thanks, snoball. Deciding backgrounds in these little studies (and other work) is hard for me. In AZ, I had a huge pot of aloe on my front porch. Here in IN, this baby is supposed to be an indoor plant, so I set it on a window sill.

 

[Artyczar]

Wonderful. Love the blue/green colors. We just planed a new one of these in the yard. The bunnies and chipmunks are trying to eat it, so we had to put a mini fence around it. I like Iain's idea with possibly matting it off to the corner-side.

 

[Iain]

I guess you will be taking turns keeping watch.

Thanks ntl, Arty, My jaw hit the desk seeing this for the first time on the big screen. Please excuse me for my impertinence. It's a lovely painting. And the paper gives it a quality I have found intrusive, but not here.

Could be hung with the plant.

 

[ntl]

Again, lain, thanks. This Canson oil paper is much easier for me to work with, without gesso. I may gesso some for other pieces.