Pink Red Roses Bouquet

Pink Red Roses Bouquet

9x12 Original Oil On Canvas

By Cheri Wollenberg 2020

I love roses!  Perhaps you are a rose lover too, or you know someone who does!  This small painting would make an excellent gift for a friend or relative.  It has a Victorian feel and makes one smile.  The good thing about a painting this small is that it can be displayed on a table easel and you can have fresh roses all year long (LOL).  Click Here to see more about this painting!

Mixed Roses In Turquoise Vase Still Life

16x20x.75 Original Still Life

 Floral Painting by Cheri Wollenberg

Red, yellow, pink and white roses can adorn your home for as long as you want with this wall art original painting. It is full of color and the flowers will not fade.  This still life is an original painting by me, Cheri Wollenberg.  I set the still life up with roses from my own rose bushes.  The painting is 16x20 inches in size.  The edges of the canvas have been painted black so that one would not have to frame it and hanging hardware is installed on the back. It is ready to bring cheer to any room in your home.

Rose Study

Rose Study

6x6 Oil on Artist Board

A Daily Painting

by

Cheri Wollenberg

This small oil painting is of a study of pink and red roses.  This particular study is not any set up or particular picture I have, but of a combination of resources.  I love to paint roses.  Sometimes I am satisfied with the results and sometimes I'm not!  I like these pretty well.  I tried to paint them with ease and confidence allowing the paint to trickle and smudge together.  This little painting may be purchased in my Etsy store by clicking here.

Mixed Rose Bouquet

Mixed Rose Bouquet

12x12 Original Oil on Canvas

by

Cheri Wollenberg

Roses come and go and I'm through with this particular arrangement.  I took lots of photos of the same roses so I'll try them again in a different container.  If you are interested in purchasing this painting click:

Roses 

Pink Roses and Copper Plate

Pink Roses and Copper Plate

12x12 Original Oil on Canvas

by

Cheri Wollenberg

Roses, roses, roses......I never tire of painting them.  I hope to master them one day. 

This painting may be purchased by clicking: Pink Roses

Pink Roses in Antique Vase

Pink Roses in Antique Vase

11x14 Oil on Canvas

by

Cheri Wollenberg

  I think there is a lot to be said of discovering the pleasure of something....learning can be a pleasure.  I experience several sensations when I'm thinking about what I want to paint.  First, what is it that interests me or inspires me?  Inspiration can come from curiosity, admiration, excitement, exploration, challenge, experimentation.....oh my, the list goes on.  Next, the decision making process brings intuitive sensations.  How will I present what interests me.   I plan, compose, decide what size of support I want to use and I begin thinking about the color palette and/or other designing principles.  Third, I proceed, express, and act out the plan.  Oh my, what pleasure there is to painting.  Words cannot express the pleasurable sensations in each step of the painting process.  What a gift we receive in the process!  This painting is one that I finished several years ago when I had a great desire to explore pink.  It can be purchased in my etsy shop by clicking: Pink Roses in Antique Vase

Pink and White Roses in Clear Vase

Pink and White Roses in Clear Vase

by

Cheri Wollenberg

This painting features a pink and white rose bouquet in a clear vase. The background carries some of the warm colors of the roses to create a harmonious composition. It can be purchased at chatterboxart.etsy.com.

Pink Roses

Pink Roses in Pale Turquoise Vase

by

Cheri Wollenberg

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In the late spring one of my students brought fresh roses from her garden for several weeks.  She provided quite an array of colors each week.  My class had the best time painting the still lifes we set up.  We are still painting on some of the images taken in the photo shoots of those sessions.  This painting is one that I cropped so that I could enhance the roses to their full potential.  I wanted some discourse colors added to the composition for interest, but I wanted the pinks to be very  prominent.  I loved doing them.  I had better luck getting these subtle tones of pinks by adding light red to my palette.  I used alizarin crimson and light red for the lightest pinks and added a primary red that I tucked away to given an additional red tone.   I decreased the intensity of the pinks by adding yellow greens and I'm really quite pleased with the result.  I still have a tendency to overwork some, but I'm satisfied that I didn't completely do it in (smiles).

First Day of Spring - Ha! Ha!

After long winters, freezes, gray skies and icy roads we look forward to springtime.  We look forward to spring because it brings newness, recovery and promise of beauty and good things.  Today is the first day of spring and guess what?  We have approximately 11 inches of snow with predictions of more to come.    A major cold front with two separate blasts from the north began to invade our "warm" town last evening and has continued to drop huge snowflakes.  Just about the time we see budding of trees, spring bulbs popping up from the soil, fresh air and sunshine....what a surprise.  It IS the most beautiful snow by far that I can remember.  I choose to enjoy it and be glad!  I choose to see the good! (Romans 8:28)  Spring will eventually come and bring colors that will warm our hearts.  The painting of the single rose below will suffice until the real thing!

From our Lower Deck

Painting for the Day

Single Pink Rose