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Oh yes! that’s a vey pretty jug of tulips April – very nicely done!
I like the style:DCheers, Maureen
Forum projects: Plant Parade projects in the Florals/Botanicals forum , WDE in the All Media Art Events , Different Strokes in Acrylics forum .Tina, nice start!
Michelle, can’t wait to see yours!
April…:clap: great finish!!
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"Who said one paints with colors? One employs colors, but one paints with feeling."
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Experimenting with a simpler looser style. This is very different from my usual style, but it was fun to paint nonetheless.
It was also my first painting on black-primed canvas. I followed Virginia’s idea of letting some of the black still visible. I started with a cream-colored background (with some black showing through) for contrast with the blues but then the flowers didn’t really pop and also it looked weird. So I ended up using a grey blue (cobalt blue hue + white + burnt umber) instead to make it similar to the original picture. I did scrape some of the blue back in places to show some of the cream underneath.
The left part seemed empty so I added an extra tulip. The pot turned out so well on the first try (which is so rare for me) that I let it be and decided not to add any details to it. I used phthalo blue for the pot.
Oh, how fun to keep it loose
C&C are welcome,
Michelle
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My Facebook pageMichelle, just saw your painting and it’s lovely. I decided to try it too and worked on it today in acrylics on board. I’m enjoying looking at all the lovely versions here already.
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Michelle…like the touches of black and cream, and the extra tulip!! Nice work!
Lil…yours is really good…I like the light in your tulips!
[FONT="Impact"]♥ [FONT="Lucida Sans Unicode"]§usan [FONT="Impact"]♫ "Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech." ~Simonides
"Who said one paints with colors? One employs colors, but one paints with feeling."
~Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
[/CENTER] April.. It turned out great! Love your tulips. They are very elegant
Michelle – Beautiful light on your tulips and your loose approach is very good
Lil – Love the light in your painting.. The highlights really bring your painting to life C & C always welcome!
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BhavaniApril – yours is so beautiful! I love the delicate outline on the tulips.
Michelle – That’s very nice, loose yet you’re totally in control.
ArtsyMom – I really like the brightness of the pot and the colours of the tulips. And you’ve done those little details on the pot which I couldn’t be bothered with on mine.Mine (sigh!), I’m vaguely happy with the pot, the leaves and tulips not so much, they look rather messy. Here it is anyway:
Michelle – that really does deserve a ‘Wow’! I really like the drama you created with the very dark leaves on the right contrasting with the bright tulip heads. Lovely, exciting!
Lil – so glad you got to do one – lovely bright sunlight on the vase especially – very nice.
Tina – this vase is lovely, nice solid form/weight to it – I think you just needed the leaves to ‘flow’ a little more that’s all! Well done and thank you for joining us –
………. now to sort out the next one!:DCheers, Maureen
Forum projects: Plant Parade projects in the Florals/Botanicals forum , WDE in the All Media Art Events , Different Strokes in Acrylics forum . looks like I started off the round of late comers!
Michelle, the light in your foliage looks very realistic (yet loose :lol:)- nicely done!
Lil- nice to see you! Yor vase looks like it’s in moonlight-pretty.
Tina- so glad you joined us! You really captured the light well!Colin- I have a hard time painting objects I don’t know which leads to research so I can understand the subject I’m conveying. As it were, I’ve been a florist (was my first job, actually) and I’ve studied (ripped apart) different flowers/ plants since my very early days of investigation (always in trouble as a child- for this very reason :lol:).
I’ve also taken to heart what I’ve read about concentrating on the shapes, being mindful of the whole. Thank you for the kind words :).
Thank you Virginia, I kept you in suspense for a little bit
Thank you Maureen, Susan, Michelle, Bhavani, Lil, Tina- always nice to hear encouragement :D.Cindy- if you see Idlebrush’s signature line, he’s got a link to his you-tube page. There I found a brief instructional video on the alcohol method- be careful with his vids- they’ll change you :lol:.
I started with a black bg (little cobalt mixed in). Then I painted over it in a wash of the blue black with silver metallic & sprinkled alcohol, I already had my sketch done at this point, so I worked around it. When that was dry, I litterly dripped a thin blue black over the bg careful not to go over the vase & flower areas. That was it. Pretty simple this time, but for my other colorful bg’s I sometimes go through 7-8 layers of drippy splashy stuff funfunfun [FONT="Impact"]FuzzyNacho
[FONT="Arial"]"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
Oscar WildeTina….nicely done!!
Since this is a ‘learning’ experience….thought I’d add one thing I just noticed…and show some more of my ignorance.
I tend to paint what I see, I guess, and not always question what I am seeing (like the number of tulips? :lol:) I just now realized that the dark on the left side of the vase was/is the shadow of the handle….
[/URL] This is definitely teaching me to LOOK at what I am ‘copying’….:)[FONT="Impact"]♥ [FONT="Lucida Sans Unicode"]§usan [FONT="Impact"]♫ "Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech." ~Simonides
"Who said one paints with colors? One employs colors, but one paints with feeling."
~Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
[/CENTER] While sorting my pics for this week’s WDE (cos I’m hosting), I’ve also given a lot of thought to our next P-A-L without a great deal of success.
Sooooooo….A landscape has been suggested – if anyone has a good one they’d like to suggest, will you please PM a copy to me – then if I get more than one I shall choose from them …….. not a seascape or sunset please!:lol: – we’ve just done those;)
Or, if you’ve found one in the RIL, a link to it would suffice.
Thank you Cheers, Maureen
Forum projects: Plant Parade projects in the Florals/Botanicals forum , WDE in the All Media Art Events , Different Strokes in Acrylics forum .
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