Red Gerbera with Market Flowers (sold)

Oil - 14 x 18"
Painted last week (March 2008). This is a demonstration painting, done alla prima (meaning all at once). It shows market flowers with a red gerbera as the flower of main focus (pink lilies and white daisies are also in the painting).
In this painting I condensed what would normally take a few days into several hours. It is a great opportunity to show one's capabilities to paint in a summarily fashion and one's strengths and potential weaknesses are on display. In other words, it is a real challenge and forces one to call upon all his (or hers) capabilities. I feel I was succesful in showing the red gerbera as the center of focus in the painting.