After our funny hail storm in June, these little yellow sun flowers bloomed on the terrace all at once.

I took out my easel and oil paints onto the terrace and started to paint the mini sun flowers early morning.

I mix my own colors with natural pigment bound with linseed oil.  The colors are: cadmium lemon yellow, yellow chrome, transparent gold ochre, cadmium orange, magnesium blue, intense crimson, tierra sombra and cadmium red.

I usually start with my favorite part and build around it.

I just try to paint what I see.

I put the exact color and shape on the canvas as quickly and accurately as possible.

Here again the next morning in the hot sun.

Here I started putting in the skyline.

Since all the colors influence each other, I try to find all them as quickly as possible before the light changes.

The background colors are established, so now I start with more detail in the foreground.

I felt as if I had finished the painting at this point and then I couldn’t resist putting a scumble on it to push the back ground into the distance.

 

 

So little by little I started building up the foreground, leaving the back ground alone.

 

Summer June Flowers 2017.