I love to paint flowers. Especially now that the feel of spring is in the air after what's been a tougher than usual winter for many of us. Lately I've been taking a break from landscapes and been working on setting up still lives to paint from. Today I took a floral design workshop on romantic centerpieces called L'Fleur d'Amour at Halls Design School in Atlanta. It was a lot of fun and I consider it a kind of cross training as an artist. It relies on many of the same considerations we use for painting- variety of shapes, colors, textures, direction, movement etc..
Here's the first piece I did in class, It includes a votive candle in the center.
We did several others including one designed around a 3 foot silver candelabra which was a challenge.
It was a really fun day and a good exercise to think about design in a new medium( flowers).
Unfortunately I won't be here to paint these designs from life in the next few days while they are alive, but have the photo's to work from . I'm excited to try out some more elaborate arrangements for future painting subjects.
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