Among the Wild Irises
by Carla Parris
Title
Among the Wild Irises
Artist
Carla Parris
Medium
Painting - Mixed Media On Canvas
Description
AMONG THE WILD IRISES is a mixed media, heavily textured, collage-type acrylic painting by Carla Parris
This cheerful whimsical piece features graceful tall purple irises blooming at the edge of a pond. A little goldfish swims among the grasses and other vegetation in the water.
The aqua background, with embedded tissue paper and Oriental papers, has the look of sunlit water with ripples and movement from the current.
The palette is aqua, turquoise, sky blue, lime green, olive green, rich purple, and yellow gold.
The water effect of the blues comes largely from texture created from tissue paper which has been pressed into glue and paint and affixed to the canvas substrate.
The little goldfish swimming among the waving tall grasses was cut out from a piece of heavy paper which, after being painted yellow, had tissue paper pressed onto the wet surface.
The leaves at the bottom are composed of gauze material shaped around a wire support.
The iris blossoms were photocopies, on tissue paper, of portions of an original mixed media acrylic painting ("Wild Iris at Water's Edge," available here).
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February 9th, 2012
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Leanne Seymour
Congratulations on your feature of this image on the Semi Abstract - 1 A Day group homepage! Please be sure to add your featured image to the group discussion thread created for featured archives. f/l
Maria Hunt
So lovely. Congratulations on your work being featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group l/f
Christopher James
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group l/f/p
Carla Parris
Thanks, Kimberlee. You have zeroed in on some of my personal favorites, and you haven't missed the details!
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