Rosendal's Orangerie
Studio painting of the Orangerie at Rosedal's royal summer castle in Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm, Sweden, has a wonderful large park. Nestled in between the trees behind Skansen is a royal summer palace, Rosendal, with its garden. The garden is now a nursery, both commercial and with the aim to preserve old varieties of roses and other flowers. The café has delicious cookies and other edibles. Spending some time there with a friend in late summer, I'd brought my "Plein Air Stealth Kit", and sat on a bench painting a small quick sketch of the Orangerie:
The building is very beautiful, and while this plein air sketch isn't going to make art history, I used it as the basis for the studio work at the top of this blog post, the Rosendal's Orangerie. (Satellite image http://kartor.eniro.se/m/Mvblq, right under the blue line, a bit lower on the image.)I chose another angle, with a field with rows upon rows of mostly yellow flowers, with a row of red ones just before my feet. Being "colour-starved" in bleak midwinter, I escaped to this warm golden day.
See a large version of the studio painting here.
If you want this painting, you'll get the sketch too, included.
The building is very beautiful, and while this plein air sketch isn't going to make art history, I used it as the basis for the studio work at the top of this blog post, the Rosendal's Orangerie. (Satellite image http://kartor.eniro.se/m/Mvblq, right under the blue line, a bit lower on the image.)I chose another angle, with a field with rows upon rows of mostly yellow flowers, with a row of red ones just before my feet. Being "colour-starved" in bleak midwinter, I escaped to this warm golden day.
See a large version of the studio painting here.
If you want this painting, you'll get the sketch too, included.
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