{"id":668,"date":"2013-11-04T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/?p=668"},"modified":"2025-10-27T13:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:39:09","slug":"peony-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/peony-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Peony Table"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The client brought me her daughter’s old table and requested Trompe L’oeil pink Peonies.\u00a0 <\/span>Although flat objects are easier to paint in a ‘Fool-the-Eye’ style, I was delighted with the challenge. \u00a0<\/span>Trompe L’oeil should tell a story, so I included a scissors which is still wet from cutting the flowers.\u00a0 <\/span>A lady bug has come in with the blossoms by accident. \u00a0<\/span>Water droplets on the leaves, petals and scissor blades add to the realism.\u00a0 <\/span>This table came to me in a dry, stripped condition with damaged areas and a request for a subtle color scheme.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>I pulled out the details of the table itself with simple taupe, grey and cream which also helped down play the missing molding on one corner. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>A peony is a flower with multiple layers of petals and is not exactly easy to paint.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>For those of you who are interested in my process, I included a photo here of an early stage of this piece.\u00a0 <\/span>You can see that I have painted the leaves, but the highlights of the flower petals have \u00a0<\/span>been done in just white, allowing the background to show through for depth.\u00a0 <\/span>The next step was a pink wash over the whole blossom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Freshly cut Peonies and a scissors are painted on a vintage table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,11],"tags":[13,12,101,111,112,88,113],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commisioned-work","category-table","tag-blue","tag-flowers","tag-lady-bug","tag-peony","tag-scissors","tag-trompe-loeil","tag-water-drops"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t