Thursday November 9 2023 – 1pm-3pm EST
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Something a little easier and a lot more colorful than last week. I thought we needed a bit of a rest after last week although these won’t be a walk in the park either.
This week it’s flowers and a really cheerful, colorful, vase of poppies. Just using all that red is reason enough to paint these (I once painted fire engines for a while for the same reason).
Having said that flowers aren’t a doddle. The values in the blooms are very close and have a mixture of hard and soft edges. So we’ll have to keep our wits about us. Great fun to paint though.
I will record the drawing ahead of time and send out a link to it (it will also be on the youtube playlist too). Please come ready with the drawing done.
(All session materials are linked off the main page)
Materials:
- Student paper for mixing color swatches
- 100% cotton paper for the full painting (Again I’ll be using 10″x”10. I wouldn’t go any smaller than this).
- Value scale (See the Useful Tools page)
- Pencil/Paint/Palette/Water/Paper towels/masking tape
- Brushes: Two medium sized brushes for the main areas. One for putting paint on and one for softening edges and petal areas. Size 10 or 12.
- Colors: Ultramarine, Burnt sienna, Vermillion/naphthol/cad red (orangey red), permanent rose/quinacridone red (pinkish red), black/neutral tint, lemon yellow.
Reference Photo (click to enlarge and right click to download)
![Vase of red poppies](https://i0.wp.com/micheleclamp.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/pogdorf_27722_glass_vase_of_red_poppies_some_clumped_a_couple_o_1c32f67d-9a47-4d67-b755-424224f7cb55.png?resize=640%2C640&ssl=1)
Reference Photo with grid
My current version.
Videos:
Drawing video
![YouTube player](https://i0.wp.com/i.ytimg.com/vi/rQ652vpdp9w/maxresdefault.jpg?w=640&ssl=1)
Class recording
![YouTube player](https://i0.wp.com/i.ytimg.com/vi/rRZOPx0Wfh4/maxresdefault.jpg?w=640&ssl=1)
My class version
I’m going to do another version of this in a much looser style. I’ll add the video early next week.
![YouTube player](https://i0.wp.com/i.ytimg.com/vi/DLSzmypFe9M/maxresdefault.jpg?w=640&ssl=1)
A looser version on YouTube.
I really enjoyed this and was generally pleased with how it turned out:)
Beautiful Liz. Those close values in the flowers really work. Bravo.
Thanks Michele:)
I originally thought the base value was too high but it worked out ok
I felt the original poppy layer was too light…too high a value