Sofie Moderator
Posts : 713 Join date : 2009-11-27 Location : Courtenay, BC, Canada
| Subject: Joyful Thu Aug 05, 2010 10:20 pm | |
| This is the painting I did on Sunday when I took part in the Summer Sundays event in Comox, painting in the town circle. It wasn't a plein air event, so I prepared a pic from a photo of poppies I'd taken a few weeks before. I prepped a 14"x14" canvas with a wash of magenta and indian yellow and odourless solvent. I drew my poppies in with water colour pencils, then went over the final drawing with my coloured art brush pens. The background is rocks, so I made greys using prussian blue, carmine deep, some of the various yellows I was using, and zinc white. The background colour shows through. For the poppies I used Cadmium yellow hue, Cadmium yellow light hue, Indian yellow, and a bit of Cadmium red hue and carmine deep. For the greens I used prussian blue with some of the various yellows. I started my shift off with the drawing done, so the painting took almost 4 hours. Using the paint thickly made it possible to keep painting. | |
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judyfilarecki Moderator
Posts : 2685 Join date : 2009-11-16 Location : Northern NY and Southern Arizona
| Subject: Re: Joyful Thu Aug 05, 2010 10:23 pm | |
| I love the colors and your background. Judy | |
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Crystal1
Posts : 639 Join date : 2010-02-05 Location : Ft Worth, TX
| Subject: Re: Joyful Fri Aug 06, 2010 1:20 am | |
| This is one of my favorite paintings. Your colors and style are beautiful. Dayle | |
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Dana C
Posts : 379 Join date : 2010-06-02 Location : Seattle/Snohomish, WA
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Callie Moderator
Posts : 1233 Join date : 2009-11-21 Location : St. Louis, MO USA
| Subject: Re: Joyful Sat Aug 07, 2010 12:11 pm | |
| Love this! The oranges and yellows against the blues and greys.... the diagonal composition....WOW! | |
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Sofie Moderator
Posts : 713 Join date : 2009-11-27 Location : Courtenay, BC, Canada
| Subject: Re: Joyful Sat Aug 07, 2010 11:19 pm | |
| Thanks everybody! This was one of those paintings that was so easy to paint because it was well planned - once I started painting everything just flowed. I love it when it works like that. | |
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kopo
Posts : 395 Join date : 2009-11-29 Location : Cromer, Norfolk, England
| Subject: Re: Joyful Sun Aug 08, 2010 11:43 pm | |
| Title and painting - great. I'm viewing in the middle of the night and it certainly cheered me up. Jack | |
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Janet Moderator
Posts : 2050 Join date : 2009-11-15 Location : North Bay, Ontario Canada
| Subject: Re: Joyful Mon Aug 09, 2010 8:01 am | |
| Wow Sofie! I love the vibrant colors! Beautiful! | |
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