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.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

Oh that's gorgeous!

[3y3]

That is just simply beautiful. Wow you're an amazing painter!

[mekare]

This is very nice. I love that background.

[blackmare]

Thank you! Sometimes, when I don't have a lot of time to finish something (as in this case), I end up leaving large parts of background really loose and thin, and I like the result a lot.

[mekare]

Backgrounds are my nemesis, I never know what to do. Yours is gorgeous.

[sunlit_stone]

I know I'm a few months late, but I was just checking out this community, and I had to say that this was gorgeous! I really love it, especially the colors on the flowers.

[blackmare]

Thank you! I appreciate that. <3

[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.