Well, I’m late in two days this time. 😂
First off, because it isn’t Thursday… at least by my calendar. The second way is in the content of this post. The piece of art shown here would better fit summer, as you’ll soon see.
This painting is actually one I did a while ago (so in that way I wasn’t late! Haha.) I’d meant to do a post on it, but then I lost the pictures I took of it. So… I never did the post. Cause what’s a piece of art when you can’t see what it looks like, right?
Well, today I found the pictures, so now I’m going to do the post! 😊
First off, when painting, I always lay my canvas on scrap paper. In this case, I used newspaper, but you can use anything you want. Second, I will sometimes make a border on my painting by taping off the edges before beginning to paint. This is something I saw on Youtube, and I quite like the result! I used masking tape, but I’m sure there’s an actual art tape you should use, since masking tape sometimes bubbles and lets paint through underneath (don’t worry, you can paint over it in white later!) .
Ok, next! I the first thing I did here was put some white paint directly on my canvas. I do this because it takes a lot of paint to cover the canvas, and it’ll take a while if you’re using a palette and transferring it brushful by brushful. I spread the white out completely, then but on blue and green the same way, to establish a background wash. The original white is covered up, but it helped spread the following layers of paint!
Ok, so here is shown my next step (I forgot to take a picture of adding the blue and green… whoops!) after setting up my background. I added white here as a rough guideline to the stems of the sunflowers I’ll be adding in a minute.
Ok… here I got carried away in my painting and totally forgot to take pictures of the following steps… basically I started at the bottom and layered my way up, adding more color and detail as I went until I got to… this!
They’re a little… wonky if you couldn’t tell. 😂 I’d never painted sunflowers before, so the colors and petals didn’t turn out quite right. The leaves… were also terrible. The one on the far right is the best one, by far, as you’ll see in a moment. The reason the others look a little strange is because (especially on the middle flower) the don’t have a branch-thing connecting them to the main stem. And the others are just WAY to droopy-looking… 😂
Anyway, on to the next picture! In this one my mom suggested I add little dots for fireflies (and to spruce it up a little bit) and a ladybug. I’d also never painted a ladybug before…
You’ll notice I also connected the floating leaf, and added more detail to the flowers. Now for the final product, when I took off the tape surrounding the edges of the painting!
Granted, I could have done the border a little thinner… but I could have done a lot of things differently that I didn’t. 😂 My mom liked it a lot, and one of our neighbors did too! She actually ended up buying it recently, so now she has it in her kitchen on the wall. 😊
Hope you enjoyed today’s little art piece! Have you done any paintings lately? Did this inspire you to do so? Tell me in the comments; I love to hear from you, my wonderful readers! 💛
God bless,
Janet 🌻