Sometimes, for a warm up or just a quick painting session I'll paint some small flowers without using any reference. These are fun and rewarding and can be glued to card stock for an original card. They are about 4 1/2 X 3 1/2 inches depending on how much I crop them. I was cleaning out a nearly empty tube of paint and didn't want to waste all that paint on my brush so all my flowers were bright primary red which I allowed to explode on the wet paper. When that was dry I did negative painting around the flowers with the blues and greens and made the petal shapes.
These are great... I do the same thing. It's amazing what these little simple pieces can do..
ReplyDeleteWhat special cards! Thanks too for the tip on putting in the negative painting after the red was dry. I never would have thought of that!
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