Demo Tulips step 7

Now I've worked my way over to the far left side using Grumbacher Red, Permanent Red (Da Vinci), Organic Vermilion (Daniel Smith), Orchid (American Journey), and Green Gold (Daniel Smith).

Demo Tulips step 6

Now we're going back to the left side to lay in colors of the old oil painting of wine bottles. I'll try to mimic how oil looks using this medium. There's a first time for everything, right? I'm pretty sure this will require at least 2 glazes or applications if it is too light.

COLORS used for the frame: Raw sienna and quinacridone gold. Use same ones for the yellows along with arylide within the oil painting, plus quin magenta and cobalt teal blue.

Demo Tulips step 5

A bit more green to show you of the foliage area, middle right side. Keep in mind I am trying to put color in the strength I want it to be when dry. Since it dries 40% lighter, if your wet color looks just right, it ISN'T, and should be darker.

Demo Tulips step 4

Now I've gone down to begin foliage leaves. Using a mix of arylide yellow and Prussian on my 1" flat sable I'm going in between stems being careful to have the same value/color on both sides of a line. This is called the Rabbit Rule: If a rabbit goes to a tree and stops, he will keep going on past the tree on the other side. So you don't want your color to stop at a line; you want the viewer's eye to follow through.

Demo Tulips step 3

In this photo I've done the background wall all the way left to the edge of the oil painting's frame. Usually I only put down one application when painting directly alla prima, but can see I'll need to re-glaze the greenish midtones here.

Demo Tulips step 2

I'm continuing on across the dry paper with a very wet 1.5" flat Robert Simmons brush, loaded with Prussian blue, phthalo green, and small amount of permanet magenta (Daniel Smith). I'm cutting around tulip tops and down in between with the darkest pigments letting the colors mix and mingle.

Demo Tulips step 1

Starting with a vivid photograph of my tulips, I've sketched in the basic drawing directly onto dry Saunders 140 lb cold press (NOT) paper. Beginning with darks first on dry paper I'm laying in Prussian blue mixed with small amount of phthalo green by DaVinci. I don't always start with the background first but will with this painting. Feel free to ask questions as we go along.