Blooming Roses Painting size 22 1/2" x 15" |
I have always loved flowers but have to confess I am no gardener. If it wasn't for my husband looking after our moderate sized garden I would need to employ a gardener to have anything decent to admire. However I thoroughly enjoy creating a garden on paper by using my imagination and with the aid of a single bloom reference (real, photo or googled) for getting a bit of a likeness, I plant a flower on the page and let my imagination help it grow into a flower bed full of blooms. I try and portray the essence of the flower and use a variety of brush strokes, flicks, splatters and more to convey my imaginary leaf shapes, stems and twigs. I haven't painted enough in my opinion these past few days due to outside committments but yesterday I was able to get lost in the moment with trying to capture the essence of these Roses. This is the type of painting I like the best. They don't all turn out well but they are a lot of fun and very rewarding when they do.
These flowers are definitely the next best thing to gardening, Lorraine! You captured their luscious color, along with a beautiful background, and I really love your bleeds.
ReplyDeleteNot sure what would be harder Terry, growing them for real or trying to paint them to look real!
DeleteI love that you can get something so wonderful from a single bloom reference. Nicely done...great edges to the roses.
ReplyDeleteThanks Joan, I really enjoy creating in this way
DeleteI love these roses Lorraine, such gorgeous colors you've got going. This one is certainly a winner!
ReplyDeleteThanks Sherry, you know how much I enjoy painting flowers
DeleteThere is nothing better than painting from life especially with flowers. I love the creativity, delicacy and soft colours to your roses Lorraine.
ReplyDeleteThanks Laura, this is my favourite kind of working
DeleteHello Lorraine:) You did a wonderful job on these flowers. I love the color very much. The little buds are lovely and the blue background is beautiful! My second hobby is gardening. It is so relaxing! I hope to see more flowers from your imagination:)
ReplyDeleteGlad you like this Renate, I love gardening too - well I love seeing it done!
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