Limelight Hydrangeas in Progress | A commissioned painting

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

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.