Cedar Lee August 7th, 2009

Here is the latest Lotus art, fresh off the easel!  This is a 3-panel painting, also known as a triptych.  It’s painted in oil on 3 separate 16″ x 12″ canvases.

Lotus Pond II

Here’s a close-up of each of the 3 panels.

One of my goals for this series is to keep the design elegantly simple but with flowing movement throughout and many points of interest.

I love working with this opulent color scheme of deep reds, olive greens, white and gold.  The colors in a real-life lotus pond are much more of a spring palette, but I feel that these colors fit well with the romantic mystique and rich symbolism of lotus flowers, which glow like jewels as they rise out of the muck.

Here are some ideas for where you might hang this piece of art:

An ongoing part of this series that I’m having a lot of fun with is the addition of the stylized, simplified forms of small, enchanting pond critters, such as beetles:

frogs:

and of course, the ubiquitous dragonflies:

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