Little Flowers

[blackmare]

One reason I like to teach is that it leads to things I'd never otherwise create. Here's one from this week's class.



Flowers, Oil on gessoed paper, ~ 8" high. It was a demo sketch, showing a student how to start with a wash of green and a fast block-in, and then build layers to create the flowers. It was going to be a throwaway, and then ... we both liked it, so after class, I kept working.

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[hypostatize]

This is many years late as I’ve only just joined Dreamwidth, but I absolutely love the texture and brushwork on this painting! Your use of color is really lovely as well.

[blackmare]

Hi there! It was really nice to get this in my inbox when I woke up this morning, so thank you. :-)

I should post some newer things here, probably.

The texture in this one comes largely from the surface I was painting on: heavy paper (Bristol paper I think) which I had coated with white acrylic gesso, using one of those super cheap “chip brushes” you get out of the bin at a hardware store for, like, a buck. They’re very coarse, so they leave noticeable brush strokes in the gesso. I find that texture really fun to paint on, in ways that the texture of a canvas isn’t, so much.