This red rose is from Carol Marine’s works on the Daily PaintWorks website. I wanted more practice with roses. I drew this one out first on a 6×6 birch panel.
I started with alizarin crimson, and then mixed it with either yellow, white, or dark blue to get the different red shades. The olive green leaves and stem were created with yellow and black. There’s one section of teal blue that really should be the purplish shadow color, there right in the center of the painting.
I can’t believe we’re already through week 11, almost 25% through this year challenge. Time flies! This is the week 11 painting for Jed Dorsey’s Mini Painting Challenge at Acrylic University. The name is “Roses are Fair”. (In my case, I should say, “Roses are Abstract”, ha-ha!)
6×6 panel, gray underpainting from a Raw Umber-Titanium White blend.
I definitely need more practice with roses!
I painted this bouquet of roses from Jed Dorsey’s online class at Acrylic University. I’m fairly happy with the roses, not so much with the reflections in the vase. But this was fun!
9×12 stretched canvas. I copied Dorsey’s violet underpainting, but I don’t think I’d use that color next time. The violet color is truer in the half-painted image than in the initial drawing out image.
This painting came about because I had signed up for something on Ali Kay Studio’s website. I got a free paint-these-zinnias packet as a result, which included a reference photo, drawing template, supply list, and a photo of how Ali Kay did her own painting based off the reference.
I traced the template on to canvas, covered the pencil marks and did the value mapping in Payne’s gray (too dark, I think), and followed her process for underpainting (based on some of her YouTube videos). From what I can determine, she paints the complementary color — so the yellow flowers have a purple underpainting, and so on. On the whole, I think I went to dark on the Payne’s gray — not sure what color she uses — and in the past I’ve ignored pencil or charcoal marks (so I’ll continue to stick with that in the future).
I like Ali Kay’s style for portraits of kids and animals — not sure I’m sold for florals, so I went my own way and did my own thing. For better or worse. I am most satisfied with the flower pot, and using my brushstrokes to convey the cylindrical shape.
This painting was done on a 6×6 birch panel, prepared with gesso. It’s my version of Ali Kay‘s poinsettia painting. She’s an artist I recently discovered on Instagram who paints with acrylics, and I like her bold style.
This little 4×5 piece is based on a cropped version of a painting of zinnias by Jessica Green. I like the way she paints and was trying to imitate it.
I found out about this artist in the library of interviews available for members of Acrylic University, although she paints in oil.
Some time back I had painted this 6×6 canvas panel with cerulean blue, so today I used that for my sunflower. The petals are layered with cadmium-free orange as the base (although it looks like yellow ochre now that it’s painted on the blue). Then I mixed azo yellow with some yellow ochre. Finally, the top layer is cadmium-free yellow. The center is burnt umber light, with some yellow ochre, and then purple and yellow denoting the seeds.
This sketch of a rose is based on an image by InspiredImages from Pixabay.
I painted one of the sunflowers in my vase — but skipped the vase. And decided to outline it with one of my Arteza Brush Pens. This was done on 6×8 300-lb. watercolor paper.
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