This was one of my first daily paintings, done this summer. Gerbera daisies, crikey! Didn't realize 'til I got into it how challenging it is to paint daisies, especially white tipped ones, without making them look like pinwheels. Had to keep squinting to find places where I could lose edges and group individual petals into cohesive shapes. Am learning to do this more and more, I find I really have to keep playing back and forth with massing and reintroducing elements of detail, then whoops!..too much detail, back to massing. It's quite a game of cat and mouse to finally get a result I'm happy with, good thing these little paintings are all about the workout! The beauty of oils is that you can do this with a fair bit of ease, I really can't imagine painting in any other medium.
Forgot to mention on my first "daily painting" post, that "daily painting" is a term I use loosely. To be honest the idea of posting every single day right from the get go totally freaks me out, so I'm going to ease in to it until I get warmed up to the idea...
Beautiful, Liz! Love the color harmony. A little gem.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful colors!
ReplyDeleteThis is so lovely Liz! You have the illusion of all this detail on this smaller canvas size because of your masterful paint strokes.
ReplyDeleteHi Liz, this looks great. I wish you all the best with this new endeavor, and I know that you will be be very successful with gorgeous work like this.
ReplyDeleteGerbers are my favourite flower - you have done a wonderful job! Just enough detail to make it look really detailed. And I esp love the glass work, you make it look so easy ... My tendency is to paint too detailed. I need too look at shapes more like you mention, that would help I bet.
ReplyDeleteHi - followed a link from Crazy Ravens Studio to you. Your work is fabulous. I love seeing painters who exhibit a variety of subjects, sizes and media.
ReplyDeleteI'm a fan, officially.
Hey Liz! I'm loving your 'daily paintings':) just chose this one to comment as gerbera is one of my favourite flowers!
ReplyDeleteThank so much everyone, for your interest and your comments...what a great community of artists the internet has created, love it!
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