This painting was done on a 6×8 canvas (Blick Premier — I surprisingly liked it) and it’s based off of one of my own photos. The background is Dioxazine Purple (PV23) tinted with Titanium White, as a complementary color to the various tones of yellow (Yellow Ochre, and Cad Medium Yellow mixed with Yellow Ochre).
While I’m not entirely happy with this effort, on the whole, I think it’s one of my better sunflower paintings.
I took this photo back in the summer of 2023 and, as I was browsing through my pics of floral scenes, thought about painting it. Roses are difficult for me — but maybe I need to let go of that negative thought and tell myself roses are fun to paint! (Actually, this bouquet WAS fun to paint knowing I was doing it “solo”, and not copying someone else’s painting or using someone else’s reference photo.)
I used a 6×8 canvas panel for this one.
For once, I’m painting from a reference photo of my own! My first attempt was garbage, as you can see below, because my values were completely off relative to the photo on the right. You can barely see that I actually have two shades of yellow for the petals in the painted version.
So, I tried again a few days later, just painting over the old version. And this is the comparison between the old painting and the new. Still not happy with it, but it looks better from a distance, lol!
Just for grins, here’s the comparison between my photo and the new painting.
BetterLateThanNeverArt 