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| My model, growing in a patch by the riding ring. |
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| My drawing [and value idea] |
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| I masked out the flower, and applied a thin, graded wash of quin. gold, let it dry, then did a thin graded wash of phthalo blue. |
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| Another, more intense wash of phthalo blue |
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| The leaves done, using combinations of gold and blue. I didn't want them to overwhelm the painting, so they were done with thin washes. |
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| I started the flower with w/w applications of aureolin in the trumpet and reflected onto some of the petals, and phthalo blue on the shadowed areas of the surrounding petals. |
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| I intensified the shadows on the petals so they were as close as I could get to the value of the surrounding sky. I wanted to create a lost-and-found look - have them seem to emerge from the paper. I added some shadows around the center of the trumpet with a pink/yellow/blue mixture, let it dry, then glazed with yellow and burnt orange to warm it up. |
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| Some thin blue applied to the perimeter of the trumpet ... |
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| ... which you can see better in this close-up. |
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| This is drawing of another narcissus I'd like to start soon. I'll paint this one with different techniques and colors. Thank you so much for dropping by!!! |
