paint party Friday Flower week

For the painting round up this week I have flowers and faces!

Inspired by my friend Mary's image on this post,  to use glorious golds, yellows and greens


Funny, how I was inspired by the image yet didn't stay true to the colors and shadows.

Seeing it in these photos I see where I went wrong in shadow and color but... it was lots of fun to make!

on the mantel

I really focused on dots of color. I initially painted a sea of gold/yellow, then shadowed with other colors and got the center proportions off, but... I liked making it, and love all the dots of colors on top of the watercolor

thanks Mary!!


next flower was done last Friday when my friend Sonja in Hawaii sent some glorious photos of her own garden... with a tropical hibiscus blossom. It was a lush shade of palest pink, and made me want to try to capture the delicacy in paint

I'm having a lot of trouble capturing true color in my camera right now, then the new computer software is not user friendly in editing as well.




still you get the idea

Sonja can be found at this blog 
https://sonjahagemanndesigns.blogspot.com

I notice little details when I go from photo to paint... don't always have a lot of control over it but I try to do an impression of the image, while pulling in little details, like the orange bits above.

now for some faces... I want to try bead embroidery, like beading around a cabochon. I wanted to use a moon face and had trouble finding one to purchase from a place I would be comfortable doing that, so why not combine painting and fabric???

a sketch on paper, after looking at google images for ideas...
now to sketch it on fabric....
Speaking of fabric, this week I wanted to use some tiny sewn blocks, and found this painting in my "parts dept" of old projects put aside...

and am working on making it all fit together... so far I added in shoulders so it's a little different. She is painted on fabric with paintsticks and embossed over templates in places. I do NOT use Shiva, I do not like the smell and they don't hold up over time. I add details with marker and prisma color pencils.


I went to a zoom lecture by Elizabeth Gilbert last night, and someone asked how she deals with being judged as an artist and writer. She said, we're always being judged... walk into a party and people inwardly think of how your hair looks, what you're wearing, how thin you are... When you do anything someone is judging it... so why not just create and ignore the judging?


That resonated with me... yes... if you're going to be judged anyway, why not make something to have after the judging is over?lol
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