I seldom paint flowers. I think because one of my good friends is very adept at creating florals.While I feel the need to tell you evrything, she has a way of telling us just enough. She uses delicate lines and paints in a negative style. (Negative is good to a watercolorist) Being able to paint around your object instead of painting the object, letting the background flow into the foreground, using nice calligraphy(lines) give her paintings a nice look. I think everyone has to admire someone. She manages to make her florals look as if they took very little effort- of course I know better. You can check out her watercolors in the link below. She 's an experimenter- so all of the work is not watercolor. The Daylilies seem to have an energy about them. Donna is one special lady.
Now, to my painting! I masked out the large flowers. I do not like masking out areas. I find it monotonous and boring, but some of the time it is a necessity. This technique permits me to be loose in the background. I don't have to paint negatively , thanks to the liquid friskit I can paint right over my foreground without loosing my images. After I am happy with the background then I remove the frisket and paint the foreground details. I often have to come back and redraw the insides of the shapes because the removal of the mask has also removed my graphite drawing.
It's the start of the weekend. It has been cold but beautiful. I hope the floral warms up your weekend. Enjoy.
