Tag: tulip
Tulips
Done with daffodils, and moving on to other spring bulbs! While we don’t have the snow to enjoy melt as the flowers emerge, we still enjoy their seasonal appearance.
Tulips were always my winter favorites, along with hyacinths. We never had daffs or narcissus. So, homage to a childhood favorite, the first tulips of the season.
I tried to make an orange using Quinacridone Gold and Alizarin Crimson. Not sure how well it worked. The ink is iron gall in a Hand Book.
Instant Tulips
“Instant” tulips?
Yes.
I bought a Fuji Film 90 Mini Neo Classic instant camera for a July 4th birthday. No firework pictures, just pictures of the birthday party attendees. It was a success, and lots of fun.
So now I have to drag out the old scanner to put them up on line! In the process, I’ve had to look at how filthy my scanner is, at the dust and hair probably embedded inside the scanner, and then clean things up. By hand it is awful, but the >filter>noise>dust in PS6 works very well!
More results will come . . .
Tulip – Day 2
Hmmm. Not so sure that this is going anywhere good. I added veins to the leaves, and then shadows within the tulip itself. The fact is, there are not really any shadows in the picture I am using, so these are totally non-existent. I made them up.
I kind of like the veins. The shadows, though, are weak. I need to do something here – as far as I am concerned, I messed it up big time!
On the other hand, two positives. First, no mud. Second, I am painting.
Tulip Painting – Day 1
This past month has not been what I would have liked it to be. Instead of using my free time as I want to, I have had to use it for things that have to be done. The entire month of June seems to be that way. Sigh.
Today, though, I had time. Lots of it. Starting at 3 this afternoon, and going to 6, I got time to paint. (Yesterday, I did some baking.) The choice was to rummage through some of my paper in the paper portfolio, and see what I have. I have oodles of hot press 140# Arches, so I pulled out a sheet that was already cut, and went to work. Handling wet-into-wet and controlling color is today’s main goal. As I have also been watching some watercolor videos, I thought I would try to work with some of the information I observed, to see if I could remember it, as well as to see how well I could do.
Subject matter is a pink tulip that has hints of yellow. The beginning task was to set down the first layer of washes, using WN Permanent Rose. Different layers of this color were used in increasing intensity to darken the areas. This took a lot of time. I applied clean water, and then worked in the paint as necessary, rotating the paper at times to have the color bleed, and at other times using a dry brush to pull out excess color. Other times, a damp brush was used to blur edges. I let the painting dry between sections.
After the pink was fairly well established, I pulled out some DS New Gamboge. Using clean water, I laid in a little wash in the areas of each of the petals. New Gamboge was blurred into the pinks, and edges softened using a large, dryish brush. Finally, around all of it, a combination of Phthalo blue and Hooker’s Green. Notice, I shaved off some of the tulip in the lower right corner, and probably will do more petal shaving with the next layer of color.
So, that’s it for the day. Tomorrow more is planned to give the tulip more depth and dimension, and to do something with the background.
I’m rather pleased with it so far, but who knows what will happen tomorrow!
Ink, Yarn & Beer 