Spring is in the Air

It’s pretty cold out there, but there are definite signs of Spring which is really exciting.  At last there is the light at the end of the tunnel of Winter and soon things will warm up.  I’ve become so excited that I have been painting flowers non stop all week!

I find flowers very difficult to paint most of the time.  Its so very hard as there is so much detail.  The difficulty is to know where and when to simplify.  It’s often best to squint your eyes to see what needs to be in detail and what not.  Our eyes can find detail in so much of what we see yet most of us prefer paintings which aren’t always in focus throughout.  It’s similar to when and where to lose edges and where and when to accentuate them.

‘Snowdrops’ – oil on board 10″x8″ – £65 from Alicesarthouse shop at Etsy

I tried an impressionist quick way with the snowdrops which has a blurry style which I probably like the most. For the other flowers I tried to concentrate on only parts of the flowers which I think works on the the large bunch of flowers rather than the smaller flowers.  For the larger bunch of flowers I tried to use a larger brush throughout.  It’s nice to try different things/styles/brushes etc.

 

Advertisement