PROJECT 9 POTTED PLANTS

You can find great inspiration in home and interior decor. I am sitting now in my living room, which is also my office and studio. If I take a look around me, I see the colors of my sofa; the pattern on the rug; the multicolored stripes of a blanket on a chair; a light pink vase on my fireplace, filled with white lilies; and other familiar objects that I love—lamps, mirrors, books, and so on. They are a great source of ideas for patterns and combinations of colors.

You can also often find nature in the house, and that is the subject that we will paint now. Let’s take my favorite potted plant. We call her Marcel, and she has been a friendly presence in this room for years. Marcel has very wide, wavy leaves in a beautiful ...

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