"Garden Trio" 8 x 10 Oil Painting by Pat Fiorello $300 |
I bought some roses that unfortunately were a little quick to die. Petals were falling off before they ever opened. However, I was able to salvage a few for a small painting and with a little artistic license brought them back to life on canvas.
I use several different approaches for painting flowers. Sometimes i use a transparent underpainting method which I learned initially from Hedi Moran, sometimes I wipe out from a dark underpainting and this 3rd method, which I learned from studying with Dennis Perrin.
Below are the flowers under a single light source in my studio.
The initial sketch |
Blocking in darkest value first |
Then adding the next darkest value (the background in this case) |
Blocking in general shape of the shadow |
Adding the light shapes |
Palette of 4 general values used for the block in. After blocking in the whole canvas, then each area is refined for shape, value, color, edges etc.. |
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