Laura's Peony

12X12 

Oil on Canvas  

Photograph reference by Michael Bogeanu 

My daughter asked me to paint her a peony and the first one I tried wound up far too large for her small house. Finally I found a ruffled peony that I could paint smaller. It took a while, but my goal was to put color into the painting, but not be so pink as the other peony I painted, and still have the light feminine qualities of a peony.