Oil Painting

During a workshop at the Florence Academy of Art in Jersey City, N.J., Massachusetts painter and teacher Kathleen Speranza showed participants how to depict roses using an indirect method of painting and a specific limited palette.  

by Louise B. Hafesh 

Yellow Cluster (oil on panel, 8x8) 

Im obsessed with roses, admits Kathleen Speranza, the distinguished still life and floral painter who has been on a quest to translate the objects of her affection. Roses have always been on the periphery of my work, she says, explaining the genesis of her passion, but I was reluctant…