It's been a while since I took out my watercolor paints and paper.
My friend Sonja in Hawaii sent me this enticing video, which caused me to want to paint again
I apparently forgot my patience because you need to let the first pale petals dry before painting over them, so I got more blending than I like.
I was very critical of them, until the next day. Then I took some pics and cropped them... I am always surprised at the value of cropping. Changing the visual focus in a picture, changes the amount of negative space, and moves the focus to one part of an image.
for my quilt making friends, it's a difference between appliqueing a whole flower, or engaging the borders which allows the viewer to complete the picture in their minds.
Imagine painting/appliqueing a woman holding a flower in her hand, complete and near the center of the quilt. Then imagine moving the focus to just a portion of her arm, her hand and the flower.
the viewer now wonders who is holding that flower, maybe imagining herself holding it. Making an instant story in their mind's eye. They now become part of the experience.
In a painting like quilted art, the border becomes integral. Ask yourself if you want to contain your painting or if it's better when there is no "fence" or finish, or separation from the viewer. Many quilters now do not add a binding, which is a final covering of the edge of a quilt. They pull the scene to the back of the piece so the viewer sees the cropped image continuing on.
After cropping these in photo form, I decided to do a cross over art project, by printing the photo of my painting onto fabric
we found out the latest computer update messed up the printer causing it to print in black and white. We learned after updates to windows one needs to uninstall the printer, and re install it. Grrrrrrr.
I use these sheets of fabric, with a coating on them to make permanent the printed image. They have paper on the reverse side to allow the fabric to go easily through the printer. (Amazon)
I think the color came out beautifully on the color print, and after recovering from my hissy fit at "wasting" a sheet of fabric on the black and white... decided it may be an interesting quilted art piece...
this fabric scrap was on the design wall to be pieced into the flying geese in progress.
auditioning possible fabric choices to complete the design |
Very pretty.... and interesting. Will I keep the white border?
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20 comments:
OMGosh these are all so beautiful. You have a real talent for flowers.
Sweet blue flowers. Delicately painted.
Happy PPF, enjoy weekend 🌺💗
Love those gorgeous, blue flowers! Happy PPF, Valerie
Hi LeeAnna :)) I love the black and white with the white border!!! And how neat, I've never heard of those fabric sheets to print on!! I may have to look into that! Your flowers are beautiful! I lack patience with layering at times...but the result is really pretty! :)
Good thing you don't fear color because you work with it so well.
by EAGHL
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they are great... and now we wait with more hope to spring and the flowers ;O)
Beautiful watercolour flowers!
Luv tge soft moodiness in your watercolour flowers
Happy PPF
MUCH🖤love
i liked your results of painting wet into wet and also after it dried, layering. i have used the term glazing to describe the way you layer after having patience (or heat gun, i would have had to use my hair dryer with four corners held down by rocks!) when i paint flowers for folks to quilt, i used this technique to get depth and enhance color in areas desired.
i'll send keen you tube on glazing soon.
Your blue flowers are enjoyable to look at! I also like the black & white version.
be well... mae at maefood.blogspot.com
Pretty! I like these.
I like saturated effect...PPF
Stay Safe and coffee is on
I like the petal blended effect. They are all lovely!
What beautiful flowers!
Pretty flowers. I like blue flowers.
Oh! That leaf print really works well with the black and white flower image. Leaving the white border might feel like the mat of a framed picture. Do you think it will work for this?
beautiful watercolor flowers!!
I Love this blue flowers!You paint better and better, a true artist Happy PPf, hug Elke
Those log cabin blocks are wonderful!
I love how your blue flower turned out, both cropped and uncropped. Cropping is helpful for photos of people, too, to focus in and get rid of off background distractions.
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