Floral Painting in Oils

Cyclamen Flowers

About This Painting:

 I like to paint thick and expressionistic. I usually work with a very limited cool warm primary palette also known as a double primary palette.


I use Alizarin Crimson and Cadmium Red as my warm and cool reds e but for this paining I chose Da Vinci Cadmium Orange and Rose Madder.


There are a wide range of colors to choices available and trying to decide what to paint with can be overwhelming, that is why I think learning to work with a limited color palette and mix your own colors is vital to understand how to mix and use color.


There are many different kinds of limited palettes. There are the palettes of the Old Master, Earth toned palettes and the palettes of the Impressionists' pick one that you like and work with it for a while and see what you learn.

Cyclamen

10x8
Expressionist floral painting on gallery wrapped stretched canvas.

Media: oil painting

Size: 8 in X 10 in (20.3 cm X 25.4 cm)

Price: $200 USD

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The Game

I started with a basic sketch on a toned canvas.

I add some gray to the background.

I start to work on some of the base colors.

I work on the figure and the wine bottle.

I add a window to the background and more detail to the figure.

The Game

About This Painting:

The Game
6x8
oil painting on canvas mounted on a museum quality panel ready to frame.

Media: oil painting

Size: 8 in X 6 in (20.3 cm X 15.2 cm)

Price: $100 USD

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Your Guide to Stress Free Oil Painting

Art by Delilah

How I did this painting:

I like to start with a tinted canvas because I do some scrumbling in my painting so it's nice to have an interesting color in the under painting.

Scumbling / Glazing is a method of applying very thin layers to the painting. It is effective for very smooth gradations, and also for adjusting dried layers. It can be used to great advantage to manipulate the reflective or absorptive light qualities inherent in pigments.Scumbling and Glazing are transparent painting techniques.

I draw a lose sketch of my main objects and shapes.

I add color to the backgroud and the dark shadows.

The nice thing about oils is that you build the color from darks to lights and if something doesn't work out just scrape it off and continue.

I keep working on the bird. I want to develop it nice round shape.

I start adding the feather to the at little bird. There is  a lot of value to painting the same subject in many different ways. You start to think what it is about the subject that you really like.Why is it that you paint this.

I add the high lights to the eye of the bird. I use a paper clip that I have stighten and put a big dot of paint on the tip and just touch the eye of the bird. I find it easier to use a paper clip then a brush when I need just a touch of color.

As I finish up I add a loose feather in the foreground. I add a few seeds and a string for the little bird to build a nest with.

The finished painting has been done with just a few colors and I kept it very simple for nice stress free painting.

Nest Builder

About This Painting:

Nest Builder
7x5
oil painting on canvas mounted on a museum quality panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 5 in X 7 in (12.7 cm X 17.8 cm)

Price: $100 USD

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