Flower Power 36" x 36" Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas Contemporary Floral Painting Finished! This painting is drying in the studio...once I started this painting, I could not stop. After visiting the Dallas Arboretum this week, I was so impressed and inspired with the vibrant colors of the tulips, that I could not resist painting them. I decided that I needed to tone my canvas with a diluted Permanent Rose, then I was ready to start drawing on the canvas. I used raw umber, olive green and violet to place the flowers and lay-out my road map. I started with my transparent oils and put a couple of layers on, getting my dioxazine violet, magenta, olive green, and permanent rose. The background fades and is somewhat out of focus to create some distance on the canvas. I mixed up about six different piles of greens, starting with sap, olive, and adding cad yellow and ice blue to get a good range of shades. I put in the jonquils last...
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