Vignettes

It is true. There are no vines running through the images nor is there much shading. Some would call the collection of images charming, one of the qualities of a vignette so the dictionary says. Why vignette? Well, it is a convenient way to differentiate between sizes of murals. A vignette in my corner of the world is a three foot by four foot panel which will be mounted in a steel frame set beside a path in a park. A tableau is a four foot by eight foot panel and a mural is any size after that. So these are two of the three vignettes that I have been commissioned to paint. I prepared the panels as usual with molding paste and several coats of iridescent colour. The base is the same for all three: ultramarine blue and burnt sienna with a touch of silver. A little alizarin crimson adds a further dimension. I chose a purple watercolour pencil to do the drawing on the medical image. Purple is the colour of healing they say. My favorite poppy red watercolour pencil delineated the collection of parades, a complicated piece. Parades are lively, red is lively. Now all that is left to do is paint.