Old Rose Canvas Print

"Old Rose"

A minimalist white rose in digital watercolor with a pale wash of barely-there dusty rose pink and sage green with taupe and warm copper shadows to suggest age, painted on a cold press paper texture. I like this one way more than I probably should; the simplicity, earthy tones and wistfully melancholy mood really appeal to me. Please visit my Contemporary Botanicals art gallery to see all my floral art works.

Copyright 2018 Susan Maxwell Schmidt, all rights reserved.

My mind lives in a rather strange world of its own, in a state which I tend to refer to as "delightfully twisted." Through my art, which I am vehemently determined to continue to create with as little outside influence as possible, I work tirelessly to interpret the concepts my mind creates in a moment-by-moment barrage of ideas that always seem to come faster than I can realize them in a tangible form. Though my artwork over the past 40 years has evolved from my early days of shooting on film to manifesting itself in many different forms of more contemporary media, from the delicate transparency of digital watercolor, to the no-holds-barred starkness of noir digital photography, to even the fanciful abstract-turned-conceptual properties...