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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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"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":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Peony-Table-20.jpg?fit=480%2C640","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3UDxD-aM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4046,"href":"http:\/\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/4046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}