I ended up changing the background color to better go with the wall color, which is a "cork" color.
Here's my almost finished Red Ginger painting. Since the last picture, I worked on the flower, reworked some of the leaves, and put a few more colors on the leaf edges. I'm close to being done.
The background color looks better in person. I'm not so sure I like the flower petals - they look too sculpted.
I started making the background Naples Yellow. But changed it to go better with a cork colored wall paint.
Here are some earlier versions and close ups:
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| Almost done, before I changed the background color and added some accent colors. |
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| Later version, adding colors and definition |
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| 1st Block-in sketch |
3 comments:
Very cool! it's fun to see the progression.
It all makes me want to revisit my paints and pencils...took a drawing class one summer too many years ago and it took that to make me sit in one place for a few hours and concentrate. I don't do that on my own. I miss it!
This is beautiful..thanks for sharing the progress...
do you know of a book on how to paint Hawaiian flowers in watercolor?
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