Spring Flowers Bouquet in a Vase.

Just in time from spring to summer, between working hours and organising the free time, here is a painting with a vase with spring flowers bouquet. I have taken some photos from the starting to this point of the painting, which I find very likely to be set aside for a future rework. Let' s go through some steps of this painting together.

A basic idea was aligned among the canvas, using simple brushstrokes and intuitively spreading colour around.

Leaves were sketched out to create a 'diagramm' for the flowers.

Next day, I quickly started to add flowers here and there, using basic colours before I had to leave for work.

Same day's afternoon it was that there were added some more details.

Blending and adding, highlighting and shadowing getting happy or not comfortable with the result, was the next step.

Layers later, I could feel that there was no need at present to keep adding. Flowers gave out a vivid result, although there can be alterations at the painting.

I am happy with the result.

Thank you for being here.

Enjoy!

With love,

Green Dot Creations

A Forest Walk

Spring still hasn't begun although it is the month of May, and the weather is still rainy and cold for the season. The parks are thriving with life and I have spent some afternoons depicting a 'forest walk' of mine. Let's see the results and in the next steps pictures of the process of this painting. Feel free to be advised and while each one that paints have unique skills that will bring unique results, it would be lovely to see the artwork you will have created to this forest painting. Let us start. 

This will be surely reworked in the future by me. I would add some more shadows and highlights, however I wouldn' t add extra sunrays through the forest or dispersed rocks around. I will keep this overal forest picture as it is.

Now let's see how we have got here in regard with this painting.

Picture one. Siennas, brown, white, black and light blue as a baseline, basic forming of the idea and lots of contemplating.

Picture two: Have mixed several different greens and stored them in small recycled vases with a lid. I don't know about you, but by experience, for me it is sure that there is always extra painting, after creating colours to be used in a painting. I store all the suitable vases with a lid or a proper closure that happen to be at my home just for this use: To extend the use of created colours, for next art or craft activities.

Picture three: First layer of greens, yellows, tree trunks and the forest walk begins.

Picture four: Second layer of greens and slight detailing with black.

Picture five: Lots and lots of shadowing, working in layers and adding here and there. There is more light needed at this point for the painting not to be that dreary. Though I wanted to keep this painting shadowy, as it was matching the weather and thus the overall mood.

Not much interventions were made in total. I used white for details, yellow to light up the greens and darkened existing colours for contrast. I have let the painting thoroughly dry, applied a thick coat of varnish, and stored the painting. 

Maybe I will continue this another day, when the weather will be sunnier. It have been wonderful afternoons scrolling around my imaginary forest.

Take care and enjoy!

Love to see you around!

Green Dot Creations