When painting from a photograph which is something I do a lot, one needs to plan. With time and practice these edits become automatic. One needs to think about how the vase of flowers is to be laid out on the canvas. One needs to consider the negative space between the subject and the edges…
Tag: sunflowers
Bucket of Brilliance
Sometimes my MiniARTure squares become a plan for a bigger painting like it did for a “Bucket of Brilliance”.
A beautiful summers day
I often paint sunflowers. Their bright happy faces are irresistible and their bright yellow petals are the perfect shape for a palette knife to smear the bright yellow paint on in a happy frame around the burnt umber, almost black centres. Sunflowers symbolize adoration, loyalty and longevity. Much of the meaning of sunflowers stems from its namesake, the…
Flaming sunflowers
Sunflowers always make me think of slightly shaggy, sloppily dressed flowers with a bonhomie and lackadaisical attitude as their faces follow the sun across the horizon in a worshipful gaze. They even look the part with their haphazard bright yellow petals radiating out from a dark burnt umber heart. Acrylic on canvas 40 X 40…
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