Sometimes my MiniARTure squares become a plan for a bigger painting like it did for a “Bucket of Brilliance”.
Tag: bucketofflowers
Delphiniums
Delphiniums are showy, spiky blooms on a tall, sometimes towering stem. These beautiful slightly old fashioned cottage garden flowers bring unrivalled height and colour to summer gardens with their showy spikes of vibrant flowers. The most common colours are shades of blue or purple which are filling this bucket. Initially I applied a gel medium…
Periwinkle blue
Periwinkle blue is never one colour. It has such a variety in the blues and mauves and makes a beautiful ground cover that can flower throughout the year. I seem to be enjoying blues in flowers at the moment and all the varieties of blue on the colour scale from mauve, to cornflower blue, to…
You can never have enough flowers in a bucket
I think it is blatantly obvious I love painting flowers. In this bucket I placed the softest of pink blush roses, and in contrast to the soft tones of the roses I painted purple petunias, and periwinkles all the while exploring techniques for using the palette knife. 40 cm X 40 cm X 4 cm,…
Flowers by the bucket
This is a large painting. 100 cm X 100 cm X 4 cm, acrylic on canvas mounted on a large square board. This painting was an experiment of techniques on how to create different types of flowers. I rather like how the bucket came out. I do think the background and the flowers are a…
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