I’ve been working on this for a couple weeks and I still find oil and acrylic painting to be a real struggle. It’s so “thick” (compared to watercolors - my favorite) and I haven’t been able to figure out when to use more medium or more water. It just doesn’t flow very well and I haven’t gotten the hang for blending. Anyway, I’m calling this one done. Wonder how long it will take to dry?
This is 8 x 10 and is painted on 300 lb hot press watercolor paper that is primed with acrylic paint. These are very delicate light pink flowers, but for the sake of the artwork I really pushed the darks even darker than the reference photo to have a better range of values. This was painted from my own photo. Suggestions for improvement are welcome.
I’ve been waiting for these since I spotted them in the background of one of your posts. I knew they’d be a beautiful painting. And as always, they’re beautiful!
Thanks Sonia. I like it a lot better today than yesterday. I kept seeing things that needed work, and then as I tried to fix it, the painting looked worse. I’d think it would take one more day. Not the case. And then I was sure one more day would do it. Again not the case. I just let these take as long as needed and finally it was finished (meaning I no longer wanted to risk goofing it up). Now I have to finish the oil painting of my cat. Keeping my fingers crossed.
There’s no doubt that your cat will be wonderful too. You do such awesome job with oil paints, just keep painting and sharing. You inspire me and others, to try challenging things hoping they turn out one hundredth as good as yours.
