{"id":2094,"date":"2023-08-31T13:53:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T19:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2023-08-31T13:54:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T19:54:57","slug":"a-sun-filled-bouquet-recapping-the-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/recent-work\/a-sun-filled-bouquet-recapping-the-process\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sun Filled Bouquet – Recapping The Process"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Inspiration<\/p><\/div>\n

A late August trip to pick summer annuals at Black Fox Flower Farms was the inspiration for my latest painting.<\/p>\n

This sunny bouquet featured sunflowers, rudbeckia, zinnias and queen anne\u2019s lace.<\/p>\n

As you can see from the photo here, those yellows looked so fresh and bright against the background greens.<\/p>\n

Let me show you how the painting process went.<\/p>\n

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Initial Background Wash<\/p><\/div>\n

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Uncharacteristically for me, I started the painting with a light overall pale yellow and green wash to block in the blossoms.<\/p>\n

And then, I adjourned for a two-day roadtrip to visit a friend.\u00a0 By the time I returned to the studio, the bouquet was looking pretty sad!<\/p>\n

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Two Days Later – The Oh So Sad Bouquet<\/p><\/div>\n

Fortunately, I had taken a photo of my first run at the arrangement \u2013 before I had tweaked the position of the flowers for the painting.<\/p>\n

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So at least I had that photo to work from as I sat in the company of the now-so-sad bouquet.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m usually more of a direct alla prima painter \u2013 meaning that I complete the painting in one go usually on dry paper \u2013 and don\u2019t do a lot of layering.<\/p>\n

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But with the soft wash underpainting on this one, it required a different approach.<\/p>\n

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Negative Painting Of Darks<\/p><\/div>\n

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I went in with dark greens and used negative painting to pop the blossoms forward.<\/p>\n

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Lifted Stems In The Negative Painting Area<\/p><\/div>\n

Once dry, I lifted lines threaded through the dark colors to create the light stems which gave life to the whole bouquet.<\/p>\n

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I washed in some cerulean blue behind the top of the bouquet to cool down the yellow background.<\/p>\n

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That touch of blue also helped connect the top of the bouquet to the cool blue of the glass vase.<\/p>\n

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All in all, I\u2019m pretty happy with the result. See the image below for the finished painting. BTW, it is available for purchase.<\/p>\n

Next time, I won\u2019t pause so long between step one and step two. The flowers just won\u2019t wait.<\/p>\n

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The Finished Painting<\/p><\/div>\n

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A late August trip to pick summer annuals at Black Fox Flower Farms was the inspiration for my latest painting. This sunny bouquet featured sunflowers, rudbeckia, zinnias and queen anne\u2019s lace. As you can see from the photo here, those yellows looked so fresh and bright against the background greens. Let me show you how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,53,16,4],"tags":[93,387,10,49,48,11,9,8,19,58,12,13],"class_list":["post-2094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behind-the-scenes","category-news","category-process","category-recent-work","tag-art-process","tag-black-fox-flowers","tag-fine-art","tag-florals","tag-flowers","tag-pat-katz","tag-patricia-katz","tag-pauseworks-studio","tag-process","tag-saskatoon","tag-watercolor","tag-watercolour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}