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Apart from making a mess of the top half of the sunflower (I might cut the top piece off) I was quite pleased with the result. I love it when the paint does the work for me.
Meanwhile the rain in Lincolnshire continues to fall and there is widespread flooding. The River Steeping in the south east of the county has burst its banks and several homes have been affected. Our nearest river, the Ancholme is likely to overflow but reports say that properties will not be at risk. There is certainly enough water in the Seggimore Beck to hold the duck race now!
Lovely sunflower! Lots of rain here, too. Hope you experience no flooding! -Jenn
ReplyDeleteThe sun has finally come out again this evening!
DeleteBeuatiful. I love the loose style.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, only saw the mistake after publishing!
ReplyDeleteThank you Carol.
DeleteI like the sunflower and its colours and runs. The looser style will help you with your confidence even if the journey takes you somewhere else which isn't so loose.
ReplyDeleteI think I might just stay loose, it's more fun!
Deletebeautiful painting, I would listen to Rachel's advice too.
ReplyDeleteI love your sunflower. I admire Rachel's approach to painting so I would happily follow her advice if I had even the slightest bit of talent in that direction - which I haven't.
ReplyDeleteThanks Pat (and thank you for your earlier concern about the flooding in Lincolnshire).
DeleteI love all the oranges, yellows, golds and corals. Beautiful job. Sometimes the paint has a mind of its own and it's good to give it a little free rein and just guide it along!
ReplyDeleteMost of my successful paintings are happy accidents!
DeleteLove the sunflower. Hope your rain stops soon. One can have too much of a good thing.
ReplyDeleteThe sun finally came out today.
DeleteMuch better than the plastic model. What a fine reminder of France in July.
ReplyDeleteI used to love the sunflower fields.
DeleteThe sunflower is beautiful...I wish I could paint like that! I gave up my attempts at watercolour painting 6 yrs ago when my first dog died. I also gave up doing jigsaws at the same time, but have just this last week started jigsawing again, so perhaps the painting might follow!
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to find the motivation to paint sometimes.
DeleteSue, that's excellent ! You really have given it your own interpretation, and not stuck rigidly to an exact copy. Watercolours are especially good for free flowing painting, and it's still my favourite medium. I love to use lots of colours and let them flow into one another - makes things interesting, even if not necessarily accurate.
ReplyDeleteHave you seen any work by Shirley Trevena? She's one of my favourite watercolour artists, and really does have a unique approach to her work.
Sunflowers are amongst my favourite flowers and I have been working on a mosaic of them, using glass, for the last three years at least, and plan to finish it sometime this year !
Keep up the good work.
Thank you, I'm really pleased you like it. I shall go and google Shirley Trevena now.
DeleteAnd whilst you are at it Sue, you really should look at Elizabeth Blackadder too.
DeleteI like her cats.
DeleteSue, if you want to find out how knowledgeable your art tutor is, ask her if she's tried alcohol paints.
DeleteTake a look at a blog called Sandy Sandy Art. The artist uses, and promotes, alcohol paints, which have an amazing brilliance. I've used them once or twice, because a friend uses them all the time, and when we get together to paint, she always makes me try them. The inks and special paper are available on Amazon.
That's interesting, I'd never heard of alcohol paints (although my painting does tend to improve after a drink or two!). I see she likes sunflowers too.
DeleteWhy on earth paint a plastic sunflower when you could so easily have been presented with a real one? It just doesn't make sense to me... but even so your painting looks great.
ReplyDeleteThe art tutor seems to have an endless supply of fake flowers.
DeleteSome of us aren't into 'programmed' art. I think you should have the REAL item as a model instead of the plastic replica. What kind of art class is this anyway??? Does the instructor pass anything on to you??? I'm afraid I'd be terribly bored too. I think you should just take your paints out into the world & paint what you like. You have enough skill now.
ReplyDeleteI need the discipline of a classroom otherwise I just get distracted and drift off into the garden to pick daisies.
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