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The Iris - Watercolour 1
While the weather was decent, I traded the treadmill for my daily walks outdoors. I notice flowers starting to bloom in my neighbours gardens.
I think I am going to try and paint it.
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While the weather was decent, I traded the treadmill for my daily walks outdoors. I notice flowers starting to bloom in my neighbours gardens.
I think I am going to try and paint it.
Jun 13, 2018
Initially, I thought of painting the iris in acrylic. But acrylic although much easier to handle and paint with is not as luminous as watercolor, moreover I realized there is a lot of colour blending and therefore settled on watercolors.
I have an Arches watercolour block with the paper size of 11inX14in. So I chose to paint it on the block (No stretching of paper required)
In the progression of the watercolor painting of the Iris, after the faint pencil drawing, I went ahead with the "block in" of the shadows on the flower. It is a little tricky, I did not want to go too dark too fast in values but
Jul 17, 2018
These are the final stages of the painting of the Iris In Watercolor:
All the shadows of the petals were blocked in and let to dry.
Jul 3, 2018
For the Acrylic version, I need to prepare my birch panels (5 ply birch) anything less than 0.5in thick has a tendency to warp, so I use 0.5" thick panels.
Jul 14, 2018
Following the Canvas preparation and the drawing, I blocked in a variegated green and yellow colours for the background.
Jul 17, 2018
Subsequently, I painted the rest of the petals, added the the red-orange "beards" and refined the stem and the background. The whites of the flowers have also been painted with warm and cool variegated colours.
Jun 9, 2018
One of the cornerstone of a painting is a shape. A shape is any object which has two dimensions e.g. a height or length and width. There is also a negative shape that surrounds the object but we will discuss that another time.
Let us take a simple example of my painting of the water bottle. Here the silver steel water bottle is the positive shape. The shadow on the table is also a shape. The brown background is also a shape, however since it does not represent an object, it is termed a negative shape.
Aug 5, 2018
On one of my previous blogs, I discussed shapes that tend to be boring. One of them was a square shaped building seen below. Here I discuss some tips to change this shape to a more interesting shape or select one that is more captivating.
Aug 18, 2018
On one of my previous blogs, I discussed shapes that tend to be boring. One of them was a square shaped building seen below. Here I discuss some tips to change this shape to a more interesting shape or select one that is more captivating.
Sep 10, 2018
On one of my previous blogs, I discussed shapes that tend to be boring. One of them was a square shaped building seen below. Here I discuss some tips to change this shape to a more interesting shape or select one that is more captivating.
Sep 29, 2018
On one of my previous blogs, I discussed shapes that tend to be boring. One of them was a square shaped building seen below. Here I discuss some tips to change this shape to a more interesting shape or select one that is more captivating.
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