This is my latest finished Oil Painting. Panoramic Yellow Daisies was inspired by the gardens of The Getty Museum in LA and by Van Gogh’s swirling colors.
This is the first time I have explored color on such an abstrcted ground and the process was intoxicating.
I will show you a little of the process I use in making paintings. I take stretcher bars, that I bought from John Hiemstra’s moving sale, and staple canvas to the front of them.
Jessica Siemens stretching canvas
And then I paint Gesso (white water based paint) on the surface to seal the canvas.
Stretched and Gessoed canvases ready for painting
I begin painting the first layer.
First Layer Jessica Siemens
And I paint some more…
Jessica Siemens
Until! I stop. and I am finished.
Panoramic Yellow Daisies, 2009, oil on canvas, 30x70in, Jessica Siemens