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| "One Golden Moment" 4x6 inch acrylic painting study for November. |
Fall colors were on my mind when I chose this rose to practice painting acrylic on paper. I usually use acrylics like watercolor paints, thinning them down to make sheer washes of color, but I envisioned a painting inspired by a favorite photo of mine from Oregon that I thought might look good using acrylic paints in their thicker, more opaque state .
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| I love this photo. Just the right light, color, shadows and bloom! |
Yellow flowers are sometimes challenging for me to paint. They often have shadows that are a mix of either purple, green or orange tones and getting those right without the shadow looking like mud can be tricky.
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| "One Golden Moment" The first layers of paint. |
My first color choices made the shadows look very deep orange to burnt sienna. Eventually, they just didn't look right to me. Plus I made the shadow on the right so dark, the bud didn't look like it connected to the stem!
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| Compare the shadow change from sienna to green. |
After studying my photo, I repainted the bud shape and added either a yellow or green sheer paint layer over all the deep sienna shadows. Although, I did keep the vibrant orange center as it was.
Being able to repaint over a mistake is one reason why acrylics are so great to work with. The sienna dot is the color the darkest shadow was before I gave it a healthier green glow make-over.
So my experiment in using just opaque colors resulted in needing to use the sheer layers too. Lesson learned. That is what keeps painting interesting to me, there is always a new problem to solve.
Happy creating!
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Tina
