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Monday, March 14, 2016

"Blue Mystery", 2nd attempt at Trader Joe's Still Life Flowers

This painting is called "Blue Mystery."  I just find it really romantic, and very pretty.  It is very textured.  It has a thick underpainting, so it really has some body to it.  I really loved how this blue dark background turned out.  I'm really starting to appreciate how much a real painting can't quite be duplicated.  Original paintings have a special color hue and feel that cannot be achieved by a reproduction.  

The color scheme with a dark background with these flowers just seemed very classic, and mysterious.  The emphasis wasn't on the flowers necessarily.  I'm glad that I toned down the color of the flowers.  I didn't every bring out that much pink in one of the main flowers, and that was a great decision.  

I'm learning that pink is a really strange color and demands a lot of delicacy, and proper use or it looks so PINK.  Flowers are pink, but have a lot of orange and yellow, even green in them.  I'm learning to make better decisions on what to start as the first layer of a flower petal.  I watched a tutorial where they used yellow and layers pink on top.  That seemed to be what I needed!  So I started all of these flowers with a yellow white, and I thought that the overall look was much better than my first attempt with these flowers (previous post.)
I have to draw it out and center it.



Improved rose on the left, though needs improvement

See the flowers and the painting.

I think the vase is always my favorite part at the end.


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