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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Bright and Beautiful ... a Floral Process ...

Drawing I made for class. I decided to leave out the leaves in the painting.

I used four colors throughout - aureolin, quin. pink, brilliant orange and indanthrone blue.
I started a few of the petals to see how the colors would flow together, and then painted the cast shadows with a mix of pink and indanthrone.


The petals were all done with the wet-in-wet technique. 

Then I started working on the form shadows, again doing them w/w.

The centers were done with a dark violet.

I decided the pink in the upper right flower needed  more intensity to make it stand out a bit more. And now it's done :)
I REALLY needed something BRIGHT to paint. I may end up playing with screamingly bright colors all winter!

Thank you so much for dropping by!

8 comments:

  1. They are perfectly beautiful. and look like happy Hawaii flowers... plumeria.,,, i can smell them
    love
    tweedles

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  2. In your drawing you had lines (drizzles?) coming out from the flowers to the bottom but you elimated that in your painting - was that a conscious decision or just another instance of no background? The color is amazing in this and I'd love to see you really go crazy with these bold colors - so vivid you can almost taste them - it would give us all some "eye candy" for the dreary winter days ahead!

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  3. Simply beautiful, Kathyn! You paint bright colours and I'll come and look at them when I need it! :)

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  4. Well you make it look so simple, Kathryn. Isn't that the sign of an expert? Wonderful images

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  5. a lot of us artists this time of year seem to be working with brighter colours to get rid of all the grey outside right now :)

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  6. So colorful and beautiful!! Nice work!

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  7. Awesome work and gorgeous colors. Screaming bright colors are what we need in this dark time . xx

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  8. Dear Kathryn I adore these bright colors. Just beautiful friend. I hope your students realize how fortunate they are to have you as their teacher. Have a great day.

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