This 6×8 sunflower painting was based on an image by Couleur from Pixabay.
The green I used was one of my favorites — Chromium Oxide Green (PG 17) Liquitex Heavy Body. For the darkest green, I mixed it with Alizarin Crimson. The medium green is straight from the tube. And the lightest silvery green is Liquitex BASICS Green Gray.
This time for the sky I used Phthalo Blue from Golden Fluid, mixing it with the Golden Fluid Titanium White.
This sunflower painting was based on an image by Engin Akyurt from Pixabay. For the sky, I used Utrecht Fluid Cerulean Blue and Golden Fluid Titanium White — which works better for tinting as it doesn’t get so chalky looking as the Heavy Body. My camera doesn’t quite capture the color, but it’s close.
Painted on a 6×8 canvas.
The other online classes I bought included a color mixing class from Will Kemp, a British artist who works with oil and acrylics.
These tulips were done on 7×10 watercolor paper. The finished work is on the right, but appears too blue. The true color of the table and the vase are on the left.
The next-up item in the Marla Baggetta Adventures in Acrylic course was these red poppies. She suggested we use fluorescent orange spray paint for our background; instead, I used my perinone orange paint by Chroma Atelier Interactive, which I find wildly fluorescent!
Using the reference photo, I drew the poppies in pencil over the painted canvas, and then watched her video, closed up my laptop, and did my best from-memory version. At the very end, you use a white gel pen to outline as you see fit; here, I reviewed the image of her final work, and then just winged it.
This was fun!
I was playing with Adobe Photo Essentials today, and played with applying pointillism to photos I took of tulips and daffodils.
Today I’m posting Nature’s art.. Sunday was too gorgeous a day to stay inside. Lots of sun, nearly desert-dry, and quite warm (almost hot!) at 94 F (34 C). I look forward every spring to walking by this house about a mile from my own — because of the white narcissus in bloom alongside their fence.
Karen Margulis offered her Patreon members a demo of how to paint shiny objects. Using her reference photo — but modifying it for my own purposes — I did this study on Colourfix Original (Soft Umber color), and used both hard and soft pastels.
Today for her Patreon members, Karen Margulis had a photo demo of painting a shiny vase in soft pastels. I used the reference photo provided, but decided to draw the vase in charcoal first, and later filled in the shapes with the colors I saw using pastel pencils. This was done on plain ol’ drawing paper.
The reference photo I used here was an image by Capri23auto from Pixabay. Earlier in my life, I lived at a house where purple and white irises like these grew.
I drew the outline in vine charcoal, and used Derwent pastel pencils for the color.
