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Author: Carly_Clements, Contributing Editor
 | Here you can see how the paint has dried in the salted areas. |
By now you're probably wondering when we'll begin working on the actual flowers! I added permanent yellow light to the stems and leaves of the sunflowers. When this dried, I glazed over it with one of my blues to create green. |  |
 | This image shows the center of the largest sunflower. This is the only center that shows in my composition. I used the same colors from the background and the permanent light yellow to create a rounded shape. Again, I tilted the board so the colors mingled. I wanted to leave a nice highlight shape but wasn't too worried because if the paint had covered all the flower center it would be easy to lift out a highlight after it had dried. Again, please choose colors that you prefer in your painting. I like to use a minimal palette because this forces me to use the same colors all over the painting and not in just one spot! |
| Here you see how the paint mingled as I tipped the board. I wanted sharp contrasts in this area so that it would be a strong focal point. |
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At this stage I continually switched from painting the background to the inner part of the flower and back again - when I paint floral subjects I work from the inside out and outside in. When I painted the petals, I touched the wet paint in the center of the flower with some of the petal color so that the two would blend together. However, the center color bled into the petals too strongly so I used my tissue to blot the dark off the petals. That is the beauty of yupo - its flexibility. You can just keep changing the shapes until you're happy with them! This image shows the addition of new gamboge - a deeper more golden yellow - to my colors. |  |
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