"The Dells" Finally a new pastel.

This little pastel was fun to paint. I don't usually work from

someone else's photo, but my mother lent me her picture from

their trip to the Dells. I liked the play of light against shadows

on the rock. The violets, oranges and greens worked together

to give a sunny feeling.

The Dells

12 x 15 Pastel

"Turks Cap Lily" #5 in the "8 Little Flower" series

This is one of my favorite flowers. It's easy to

grow, has a fun character and the color

is a day brightener.

"Turks Cap Lily"
5 x 7
Acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas.

Sold

"Poppy" #4 in the "8 Little Flowers" series

"Poppy" 5 x7 Acrylic on wrapped canvas- Sold

I was going to have a step by step demonstration of my

little flower paintings, but I have to remember to take

the photos! I have two left to do, almost done, then it is on

to the commissions I have to do.

#2 and 3 in the "8 Little Flower" series

"Coneflower" 5 x7
Acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas.
Sold

"Showy Ladyslipper" 5 x 7
Acrylic on wrapped canvas
Sold

"Welcoming Pine" - Watercolor demonstration

I finished painting the pine boughs, and placing the final details of branches and grass using a small brush, with dark colors mixed from same hues used in the rest of the painting.

Working on the positive and negative shapes, I added trees

to the background, foreground grass and indicated tree shapes

to the left of the trunk. The main tree trunk was painted with burnt sienna with ultramine blue dropped in to create a glow to the tree.

I continued painting the middle values of the tree tops, by

wetting the area and dropping alizarin crimson, ultramarine blue, b. sienna, yellow ocher and cadmium yellow, allowing them to mix on the paper.

Working on Arches 140# watercolor paper, I wet the sky area and used cerulean blue and ultramarine blue, avoiding areas I wanted to be white. I wet the background tree line with water and used violets, blues and greens to make soft and hard edges. Burnt sienna and yellow ocher was used to paint the space around the trunk keeping my center of interest crisp and white.

First in the "8 Little Flowers" series.

 This is the start of a series called "8 Little Flowers".

I'm going with the "start small" idea for learning how to use
acrylics and am posting start to finish images to
show the progress of this painting.

False Sunflower

Acrylic on wrapped canvas

5 x 7
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3. I continued to glaze colors until I got the depth of color I wanted, making sure the shadow values were correct. Adding the center detail by dotting in the various values and shapes I then added the last detail darks to finish.

2. I decided to use a blue compliment for the background rather than a green, combining cobalt and ultramarine blues. I started glazing more cad yellow and added a cool yellow to sunlit areas as well as a bit of white added in here and there. Alizirine crimson was glazed on the center and combined with the other colors to suggest the crevice darks.

 

1. I started on a gallery wrap canvas with ocher and cad yellow.
Looks like I need to fix the center shape.