Creating flowers

31 Jan 2016

31 Jan 2016 Canvas art, lifebook2016 acrylic paintings, flowers, lifebook2016, mixed media 14

This week in our lifebook2016 lesson, I learned a new process. First, we just took random paint and covered a blank canvas sheet, just to get color and not white showing…

Next, you just pop some color with a larger brush in the areas where the flowers will be, no shape here at this point, just colors grouped together

This was fun to watch as it started to take shape and you could see the definition of the vase. Used gesso, and aqua and limes to fill in the bottom of the picture around the vase.

Then to go back and highlight and define the flowers…. and it is done.. I think I may try this process again one day….

Pauline Agnew was the artist that shared her talents this week at Lifebook2016

Linked with Sunday Sketches today. Go check out the other art posts!!

Have a great new week!

Love

Jane

14 Comments

Christine January 31, 2016 at 5:06 am

What a fantastic result! Thanks for sharing Jane.

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1. Jane February 1, 2016 at 2:00 pm
  
  thanks Christine!! glad you stopped by. Have a wonderful week!
  
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Serena Lewis January 31, 2016 at 10:47 am

Lovely to see the flowers develop through the process, Jane….nice work! 🙂

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1. Jane February 1, 2016 at 2:02 pm
  
  thank you Serena, sometimes it is fun for me to look back at the ugly stages when I didn`t know what was going on, to the finished part… you never know which one you might like best!! have a great new week!!
  
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Arnoldo L. Romero January 31, 2016 at 2:24 pm

That seems like a simple process with gorgeous results. Happy Sunday Sketches! #8

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1. Jane February 1, 2016 at 2:02 pm
  
  thank you Arnoldo, thanks for stopping by!! have a great week
  
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Donna January 31, 2016 at 4:21 pm

Gorgeous,such vibrant colours
Hugs
Donna xxx

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1. Jane February 1, 2016 at 2:00 pm
  
  thank you Donna. Thanks for coming over. I hope you have a wonderful new week!!
  
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Alexandra January 31, 2016 at 7:20 pm

What a wonderful process to learn, Jane. I do something similar but I don’t focus on covering up the white space. I ought to try this! Thank you for sharing. 🙂

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1. Jane February 1, 2016 at 1:59 pm
  
  thanks Alexandra. You should try it for fun, but then again, why mess with things that aren`t broken?!!LOL… your process you use is perfect with perfect results!! have a great new week!!!
  
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Sue January 31, 2016 at 8:22 pm

Pretty bouquet!! Visiting from Sunday Sketches 🙂

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1. Jane February 1, 2016 at 1:58 pm
  
  thanks Sue, great to have you visit from Sunday Sketches.. have a wonderful new week!!
  
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Jennifer Rose February 1, 2016 at 12:54 pm

very nice flowers, they turned out wonderfully. its a good technique to try

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1. Jane February 1, 2016 at 1:57 pm
  
  thank you Jennifer. It was fun to try new ways of creating.. thanks for coming by to visit! Have a great week
  
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