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8 x 24", acrylic This is a painting that I started after interviewing Mark Hobson for the Fall 2009 Island Arts Magazine.

Mark often starts his painting with a dark dioxine purple ground. I thought, "Hmmm, I have some purple in my studio. Maybe I can paint like Mark!"

This was the perfect subject to work with as the clematis itself was made up of different tones of purple.

I am glad that I managed to take several photographs to work from before the heat wave hit last summer and the petals all dropped off.