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| I was visiting my sister in Vancouver a few days ago, and her gorgeous hollyhocks caught my camera's eye. |
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| I painted the cast shadows first, with a mix of aureolin, permanent rose and indanthrone blue. Then did some of the form shadows in a mix of aureolin, perm. rose and cobalt blue. |
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| I painted the leaves and stalk in different mixes and glazes of aurelin, quin. gold, quin. burnt orange and phthalo green[YS]. |
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| More work on the form shadows. |
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| I saw a lot of very soft reflected colors in the petals. I used aureolin, the pink, cobalt blue, quin. sienna and phthalo green - all very thinly. |
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| Here is where I am right now. It's really quite lovely and delicate, and I am loath to put in a background. What do you think? Thank you for dropping by, and your comments are always welcome! |
It is really interesting to see your way of painting. Amazingly sensitive work and fantastic result!
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful-- just like magic your making this flower come alive!
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So delicate is right. The flowers are gorgeous. I think an abstracted wet in wet might work nice for the background. I'm sure you'll figure it out.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! It'll be interesting to see how you handle the background. I admire your backgrounds so much!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous piece already, Kathryn...with a dark background it would pull the flower forward...and yet it looks delicate with a light background! Tough decision!! Awesome reference picture....
ReplyDeleteOh my - they are stunning!! Beautiful work :0)
ReplyDeleteI definitely need to come by here more often Kathryn. Your work is awesome and you are so generous in sharing your steps. It would be a lot of work to put these together. I'm sure there are many who are most grateful for these posts. Thank you for sharing your techniques with us. Thank you also for your visit and kind comments. Always appreciated. Blessings and happy painting!
ReplyDeleteHeel mooi het ziet er teer uit Kathrijn lieve groetjes Danielle
ReplyDeleteThis is turning out beautifully Kathryn. I love your works in progress. I see you staple your paper down as well! Do you staple it to plywood? It is so nice to work on when stretched. Happy painting!
ReplyDeleteThis is one of your best and it's not even completed! I looked at the enlarged version and am so in love with the work you're doing on this!
ReplyDeleteyou've painted the white hollyhocks beautifully katharyn
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