Stately Irises - oil painting on box canvas by Marion Hedger

stately Irises Impasto palette knife painting
by Marion Hedger

Oil on box canvas (1.5cm deep)

15x20cm (6"x8")

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Spring, I love this time of year. After the tulips die down, the irises are the next to appear. As well as the dark blue border irises, these pale purple irises are amongst the first of the irises to appear. They are tall, and although not as showy as the bearded irises, they give a beautiful purple haze under the citrus trees.

About this painting
I painted this in a loose impasto style, dancing around the canvas with my palette knife, aiming more for the purple glow than true representation of the irises.

Some Close-ups of the knife work