Orange Poppies

12x12 watercolor on Saunders 140 lb cold press, from one of many garden specimens photographed just waiting to be painted loosely and with passion.  This painting is SOLD.

Finished - Heat Wave, sunflowers

15x22 on 140 lb cold press paper as described in preceding posts.  As we are now in our 3rd week of triple digit temps, I thought its title was justified.  Let me know what you think!

WIP sunflowers continuing

Continuing on across and down I work the background and begin petals and sunflower centers weaving warms and cools as my brush progresses, not knowing how it will end up.

WIP Watermedia beginning painting

Now is time to begin laying in color, the fun part, behind the lower right sunflower and background.  I will probably leave in the white areas left that were under the coffee filters as that might be a nice suprise element.  With no photo references to guide me, this one will be pure intuition and color sense, or just plain nonsense!

WIP Watermedia - Line Drawing over Abstract Background

Now over the wild background I've laid one of my old line drawings to get an idea of what to put where.  I'll add a third bloom and rearrange the flowers by lowering the right top one to right side below and omit the small ones.  A medium sized flower will go top left and center of interest will be the largest diagonal sunflower face as you can see here on its profile.  Stay tuned as I'm off to the light box to put drawings on tracing paper underneath.  Now comes the hard part.

WIP filters removed

Okay now dow to the paper with all items off and dry, ready to do a design now.  So stay tuned.

WIP Watermedia close up of coffee filters