Yellow Flower Painting
Step by step guide to flower paintingWe all know that flowers are aesthetically beautiful but they can also be a valid subject for fine art. It is not the subject that decides whether something can be called art it is the artist and the purposeful decisions they make that creates art. Yellow flower painting has a soft glow and a meaning beyond the subject of flowers.
This paintings was donated to a fundraising event.
The lonely yellow flowers were lost in an empty garden until I found them with my camera just before they were covered over with a late spring snow fall.
I usually draw a sketch before I paint when I am working in acrylics. The lines were the main design elements in this painting and they needed to be clearly delineated within the space of the sketch.
I started with blocking in the large shapes and worked in the details, highlights and shadows.
Under-paintings can be very scary sometimes and you need to become brave and follow your instincts. Put down the bold colours and trust that you can bring back the details in your paintings. Painting is the addition of layers of paint. Many light layers of acrylic paint can give a soft warm glow to your painting, similar to the effects you can achieve with watercolor paint.
Paintings of Flowers
My goal for this painting was to give the viewer the feeling of finding those first flowers of spring. The little hopeful surprises hidden under the bursting greenery atop the muddy garden soil. I did this with the original portrait style composition and with the delicate choices in colours and the directions of the lines in the leaves, which appear to be folding away to reveal the secret of the yellow flowers.