This is a burst of colors oil painting, a colorful abstract floral piece painted in a single afternoon. Hand-painted in oil, sized for a wall that can give up some authority.
This piece is the loudest floral in the studio, and the one that gets asked about most. The composition is loose, more of a suggestion of flowers than a literal bouquet, and the color palette runs through every warm shade we had on the palette that week. Pink, orange, yellow, a bit of red, and a couple of darker strokes to keep it from dissolving into pastel.
The brushwork is fast. This was painted in a single afternoon, which is unusual for our work. The result is a piece that has energy rather than patience. If you are the kind of person who wants a floral that does not look like every other floral, this is the one. If you want something more restrained, you would be happier with Cascading Color, which sits in the same color family with much more breathing room.
We did not plan the final color spread. We started with a pink underpainting, added orange where the pink felt flat, and let the rest of the colors fall in during the afternoon. The darker strokes came last, after the paint had started to dry, which is why they sit on top of the surface rather than blending in. That is a technique we do not use often, and we are not sure it would work twice. The painting has the feeling of a single afternoon that happened to go right.
Colorful abstract florals need a wall that is willing to give up some authority. Above a low neutral sofa is good. In a dining room with white walls, it becomes the loudest thing in the room, which is sometimes what you want. In a room that is already busy, it will fight. The painting is also happier in daylight than under warm lamps, because the warm lamps push the colors further into orange.
The piece is the most saturated of our floral range. It is also the one we get the most questions about, mostly along the lines of "do you have something like this in a calmer color?" The answer is usually Cascading Color, which has the same color family with much more restraint.
