This is a 5 x 7″ commission of Limelight hydrangeas. I’ll use my Ozark pigments in oils plus white made from titanium. For the green, I’ll use a combination of the yellow lake pigment that I made from thyme I grew in my garden and a Maya blue that I made using purchased indigo pigment, native clay, and our spring water. I have indigo growing, but it won’t have time to get enough leaves for me to make any pigment from it this year. Both the thyme and indigo are very lightfast dyes from plants. I could have a much larger palette of colors to choose from if more plants had good stability. But, unfortunately, they do not. Most of them fade very quickly.
My Reference Photo
My Reference Photo is a licensed photo from iStock.com.
Progress Pics
Here’s how it’s looking from start to finish. As I get more work done on Limelight, I’ll add them here. When it’s all done and dried, I’ll have prints available, but the original is already sold. If you’d like to see images posted as I work on it, follow me at Instagram. I’ll post updates here as I get a chance. You can see progress pages for most of the paintings I’ve done by clicking here.
ABOUT
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Madison Woods is the pen-name for my creative works. I’m a self-taught artist who moved to the Ozarks from south Louisiana in 2005. My paintings of Ozark-inspired scenes feature lightfast pigments from Madison county, Arkansas. My inspiration is nature – the beauty, and the inherent cycle of life and death, destruction, regeneration, and transformation.
Roxann Riedel is my real name. I’m also salesperson for Montgomery Whiteley Realty. If you’re interested in buying or selling in Madison or Carroll county, AR, let me know! You can see the properties that I blog about at WildOzarkLand.com.
Wild Ozark is also the only licensed ginseng nursery in Arkansas. Here’s the link for more information on the nursery
P.S.
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Contact Mad Rox: (479) 409-3429 or madison@madisonwoods and let me know which hat I need to put on 🙂 Madison for art, Roxann for real estate, lol. Or call me Mad Rox and have them both covered!
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