WIP Pink Day Lily Update 3 - Starting the Petals!

I started the petals, ultra blue and perm rose for shadows, worked on the stems some too (hookers, sap and sepia with a little transparent yellow here and there)
I am hoping to finish this one tonight or in the morning, I have another one on the go also. I will post my other one next.

WIP Pink Day Lily Update 2

Step 5: I have gone back into the background with some neutral darks (sap + sepia + hookers) to define some distant leaves and bus etc... softening the paint as I go. The background is good for now, I may have to adjust it a little once the flower is complete. I can't wait, it is now time to start working on the lily.


Step 4 : I went into the background with a small flat brush and lifted out some more highlights and details.

WIP Pink Day Lily -- help I am obsessed--

Added some more perm rose and tran yellow in spots. Then went over it with sap green. Added a little more of the tran yellow and green mixture to the center and went over the bud with more yellow.


layered some thalo green, perm rose and transparent yellow on the background. Then added some tran yellow with a little bamboo green in the center, Bamboo green + tran yell on the stems. I know you are thinking whats up with the pink! I use it allot when creating my dark backgrounds especially if there is going to be pink in the flower.



The start of a beautiful Pink Day Lily. Drawn out on Arches 140lb CP paper, with the center masked off.
I am also starting another lily (wine and yellow) I will post that one later. I have just been itching to paint, paint, paint. I did the roses and a new color chart since the weekend but it just does not seem to be enough. I can't sleep at night, I keep waking up wanting to paint. Does anyone else get like this?

I Love Color Charts!

I decided to do a new color chart of just my transparent and semitransparent colors. I Love doing color charts, mind you I love color. This one is 18 x 24 big enough to see when it is hanging on my studio wall. I find that making these charts really reinforces the mixing combos and what makes what. I will do a glazing color chart later. I am wondering if you make color charts, do you find them helpful,because I know I do.

WIP Wild Roses Finished

Used some thalo green + ultra blue + sap green to darken the leaves some more. Quin gold for the brighter spots and center. Layered some more Quin Magenta to get the richness on the petals. Used Ultra Blue to send some of the leaves back.

Watercolor 5x7


Started to darken the background (washed it with Thalo green, then glazed the darkest parts with perm rose) Started filing in the petals with mixtures of Perm Rose, Ultra blue, Aliz Crim and Quin Magenta.

Back to Business Again WIP Wild Roses

OK back to painting now that Bloomin Artist is over. These are wild roses that I took a picture of in Hampton. Started the background with a mix of sap green and lemon yellow, and I masked off the center.

Bloomin Artist... What an Amazing Weekend!

Lutz building

Daisy from Hooper Studio`s garden

Black eyed Susans from beside the Legion on Main St

A house on 1016 Main Street

I had a fantastic time at Bloomin Artists this weekend, it is amazing how well organized and fantastic this is run. I thought I would have a hard time painting this weekend because you are on location and they were looking for 2 to 3 quick pieces per day from each artist. I normally paint very realistically, I knew that would not work for this event. I decided to use ink and watercolor for most of the pieces, allowing me to work quickly. Unfortunately I was so busy I forgot to take pictures of some of my completed works, but here are the ones I managed to get. With the ones I brought in ahead of time I submitted a total of 12 pieces, luckily all 12 were sold in the auction.

Fish Project for Bloomin Artists Done!

The title is : Troubled Waters

Mixed Media on 20x24 canvas

Of course any one that knows me would know that I love to try to do something different than others. I decide not to use the base and the tree sticks, I mounted the fish and garbage onto a 20x24 canvas and used acrylic paint, I really enjoyed doing this project. It is hard to tell in the picture but the fish at the top is tangled in plastic (kind that comes on cans) and belly up. They auction these projects off also. I am not sure if anyone else will like it or get it, but that's OK if it does not sell i will be happy to bring it home. I think it is really sad what we have done to our planet. Animals and Fish have no say they just have to live (or die) with the fallout from what we do.

WIP Coneflower finished

Finished my cone flower today, glad to get it done. I might take it to Bloomin Artists tomorrow for the auction.

Watercolor 8x10 - SOLD

Art Scam Going Around Again!

Thought I would post this, just in case there are artists out there that are not familiar with this scam. I received an email the other day that went like this:

Hi,

Hope this message finds you well. I saw theses creatives works on your website and i will like you to get back with more details if they are still available for purchase.

Rave on and white peony

I will appreciate an urgent reply.

Best Regards,

Betty

This is a scam, she wants you to give her your information, she will arrange for pick up of the paintings and wants to forward you a cheque. She gives you a big story about how she is in the middle of moving to South Africa. The short of it is they send you a cheque for too much money, says it was done in error and could you please send the difference with the shipping company. They get your money, their cheque eventually bounces, leaving you out the difference. Unfortunately this scam has been around for a long time, If you are not sure insist that they pay using paypal and you will include shipping (plus handle the shipping) in the price....you will never hear from them again. If you want to see more on this goto wetcanvas.com and search email scam in the forum section.

Fish and Sticks

This is what the artists receive for the Fish N Sticks Project for Bloomin Artists (a charity event in Hampton), 3 wooden fish, 3 wooden dowels and a wooden base. You can do anything you want, add things take things away where ever your creative mind takes you! The event is this weekend and the artists will paint outdoors for Sat and Sun, the artwork will be auctioned to raise money for the John Peters Humphrey Foundation. In this picture I have primed out the fish. I have more done but will post it once it is complete, should be interesting.

Which one do you like best?

I realised today that I uploaded my clematis in a different format than usual, now I can't decide which format I like the best. I have uploaded both formats because I would like your input. Which one do you think looks the best, with the border or without? thank you for taking the time to help.

Another small one.

I finished this one today. I think lilies are the flower I struggle with the most, not sure why, I find they just don't turn out as good. It is 5x7 and I am not as happy with this one, not like my last one (clematis).

SOLD

Just Finished this one.

This is one I just finished painting this morning. I really enjoyed doing this one, it is 5x7. I don't usually paint smaller, but i need some smaller ones to take to Bloomin Artists at the end of the month. I am not sure on the title, if you have any suggestions please post them. I find sometimes I have a really hard time coming up with the titles. Does anyone else struggle with this?

SOLD

WIP Cone Flower

I have been very busy getting ready for Bloomin Artists, still finishing up my fish and sticks project. I have also been painting! This is a cone flower I started to paint. The blue on the head of the flower is masking fluid. Used some perm rose and sepia for the dark in the center and started laying in the background with some windsor green, perm, rose, quin gold and sepia. Can't wait to get that background done so I can move on to the petals.

WIP White Peony Finished!

Finished my peony today now I can get my fish and sticks project done up. It is really amzing at how many colors you can see when you really look at something white. Did the majority of the shadows with perm rose, Ultra blue and some Indigo.

Watercolor 11x14

WIP Orange Iris finished!

Finally done, this one took awhile. It is a German Bearded Iris called Rave On. This is from my garden, one of those flowers I could not resist buying. I have always loved buying flowers for my garden but now I buy them with painting in mind (looking beautiful in my garden is a bonus). I am almost finished my white Peony and will be posting that soon, plus still working on my fish and sticks project.

Title: Rave On
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 11x14

WIP Orange Iris Update 4

Started darkening the stems (indigo blue) and adding some color and shadow to the main petals of the Iris (Quin Red + lemon yellow) plus a little ultra blue to gray it down for the shadows.

WIP White Peony Update 3

Did some more glazing of the background (windsor green + Quin Red) started filling in the leaves with the same plus some ultra blue. Just starting to define some of the petals.

WIP Rosie the Springer Finished!

Finished Rosie this morning, mainly used burnt sienna and ultra blue for this entire painting, used a little cer. blue (eyes and white fur) and perm rose (tongue). Glazed over the back ground with ultra blue then paynes gray to tone it down (decided i did not like the green/blue that was there). Anyway off to work on my other 2, have a great day! Thanks for looking.

WIP Orange Iris Update 3

Glazed the background with Caput Mortuum and started defining the petals with cad red light + Lemon yellow for the dark areas and cad orange + lemon yellow. Started some of the shadow on stem with indigo and ultra blue.

WIP Rosie the Springer Update 3

Darkening the shadows with Ultr blue and B. Sienna
Worked on the nose with the same colors plus some permanent rose. Started to darken
the eyes some (they still need to be refined more)

WIP Orange Iris Update 2

Glazed stems (Lemon yellow then Ultra Blue)
Glazed Back ground (Ultra Blue + Quin red, then Indigo Blue)
Update on Rosie the spaniel coming soon!

WIP White Peony Update 2

Started putting the dark underneath to the background (Hookers + B. Sienna)

Then started some negative painting for leaves underneath (winsor green + Quin Red)