My favorite part of the painting is the bottom tulip. I love the perspective, the way it's just coming out towards you. That's why I took a few other photos of it from crazy angles.
Monday, June 30, 2014
Red Tulips
In my last post, I put up a cropped photo of a work in progress. Well, I finished it! I did this painting as part of an art swap with a friend. She makes beautiful crochet blankets, so in exchange for a beautiful handmade blanket, I painted her some red tulips. I love painting flowers and have become pretty good at it, if I do say so myself, so that's what she requested.
My favorite part of the painting is the bottom tulip. I love the perspective, the way it's just coming out towards you. That's why I took a few other photos of it from crazy angles.
Another thing, I don't paint glass very often. In fact, this is exactly the second time I've painted glass, but I really love it! All the different colors and abstract shapes in the reflections are really fun to do. I had a lot of fun painting this picture and I think I want to do a larger version of it sometime in the future.
My favorite part of the painting is the bottom tulip. I love the perspective, the way it's just coming out towards you. That's why I took a few other photos of it from crazy angles.
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Variety of Tulips
A friend and I recently decided to do an art swap. She makes beautiful crochet blankets and she said she would make one for me in in exchange for a painting of tulips. Good deal! She likes red ones, so I bought a bouquet of red tulips and took several reference photos for her painting (which I'm doing in watercolor).
I had two other commissions I was working on though, before I was able to start her painting. By the time they were finished, the red tulips had died, but I really had wanted to practice some more drawing straight from life, so I bought another bouquet of multicolored tulips for sketching (and decorative purposes, of course!).
Here are my life drawings of tulips.
I just bought myself a little Moleskine watercolor journal and I was so excited to start painting in it. This is my first entry.
Quick pen and ink sketches. This sketch and the one below were both done in my 5"x7" sketchbook.
Getting detailed in pencil.
The tulips were starting to wilt and die, and I always find drawing wilting flowers a good exercise. This one is a bit larger, done in my 9"x12" sketchbook.
These ones were really falling apart! 9"x12".
I had two other commissions I was working on though, before I was able to start her painting. By the time they were finished, the red tulips had died, but I really had wanted to practice some more drawing straight from life, so I bought another bouquet of multicolored tulips for sketching (and decorative purposes, of course!).
Here are my life drawings of tulips.
I just bought myself a little Moleskine watercolor journal and I was so excited to start painting in it. This is my first entry.
Quick pen and ink sketches. This sketch and the one below were both done in my 5"x7" sketchbook.
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