The flower painting - Work in progress. / myLot

Lichfield, England

February 22, 2024 9:09am CST

This is how far I've got with the flower painting so far. I started at the bottom with burnt umber mixed with a little black. Then before that was dry I used sap green on the stems and tried to blend it with the raw umber at the bottom. I left that to dry and worked on some of the frog painting, which I was doing at the same time. When I came back to the flower painting, I used lemon yellow and yellow ochre in the area between the flowers in the middle. Then I used ruby red and a little black to paint the red flower behind. I added more dark green on the far right and yellow ochre mixed with a little green to link the green to some burnt umber below. So that's how far I've got with it. Now I'm going to hopefully do some more to the frog before I come back to the flowers again. I don't know what I'm going to do with the cat yet. I hope you are all well and having a nice day.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (472162)

• Switzerland

22 Feb

Those flowers will look beautiful once you have finished painting.

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Sharon Elton

@sharonelton (29431)

• Lichfield, England

23 Feb

Thank you very much. I'm sure they will.

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Aparajita Bhattacharjee

@apsmine9 (362)

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22 Feb

Try mixing yellow and green to where you've added dark green. If you could splash some yellow orange mixture dotted with maroon somewhere close to the sepals, somewhere at the core....

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Sharon Elton

@sharonelton (29431)

• Lichfield, England

23 Feb

Thank you very much for the advice.

Sharon Elton

@sharonelton (29431)

• Lichfield, England

23 Feb

@apsmine9 Well, my main flowers are going to be orange, and there's more green and yellow ochre in the background. I'm going from my reference photo

Aparajita Bhattacharjee