IsabeauxStudio

From my last painting I determined that for my next series I wanted to create a painting built from a combination of components.  Similar to the ladders in the previous post making up the body of the tree.

I started with a photo of a close up image of a bouquet of flowers.  These were given to me by my co-worker Grace on my last birthday.  It was a lovely bouquet in autumnal colors.

I used interweaving lines to build the main shapes of the flowers and the petals which made the flowers more textured and interesting. My goal, much like in the tree from the previous post was to use tonal color to help delineate the details of the flowers.

Here is the  rough sketch book sketch.  Looks quite complicated yes?  Of course as always  I make it hard on myself.  But overall at this point I am excited about the sketch and was eager to  see it in color.

Here is the beginning of the laying down of color.  I am am using watercolor still so I have to wait until each section dries before I can apply more.  I have taken some liberties with the color palette but am liking the direction the painting is headed.  I still need to soften the yellow in the lower right hand corner as it is feeling a little too bright.  I am about one third done, and will probably complete it this weekend.