White and Blue Iris

6 x 6 inches - Oil on Gessoboard - These flowers offer an almost infinite variety for compositions. I tend to gravitate to images of high contrast and saturated colours. For small paintings like this I use commercial boards and occasionally  ones I prepare myself. I like the smooth, not slick, Ampersand boards. For larger (8 x 10 inches and above) I like the texture of oil primed linen. I glue these onto panels unless they are too large. For larger works I paint on the linen while taped to a board and then stretch it on a frame.