Floral Contemplation Painting

Floral Contemplation by Pat Dumez (2013) Portrait of a young girl in bust, in profile, she occupies most of the canvas. The silhouette is drawn with a fine, round brush in a single free and slender movement, crimson red. She wears a hat, a costume with glue going up on the nape of the neck. Without preliminary drawing. She is sprinkled with spots and flowers quickly painted. The brush becomes larger to structure the shapes and reliefs. The atmosphere of the colors is warm, light orange yellow, pinkish white, light turquoise by touches. We do not see his eyes everything is subtly drawn and erased. The flowers, fragility and beauty, give rhythm to the movement of the profile. Material manifestation of the vegetal world which is there to remind us of simple things by naturalness and intuition. We contemplate a light, quiet and serene psychological introspection slowly and inevitably emerges. Inspired by an ancient master painter.