Another five or so hours work completed on this. I did the background very loosely with Derwent Coloursoft Green, Dark Green, Mint, Grey Green and Sea Green. I chose to stick to the cooler greens because I want the background to recede and, hopefully, make the flowers pop forward. I think it's working and I'm quite pleased with it - so far.
I've also started adding some reds, oranges and yellows to the petals and I'm doing the stems with warmer greens - Limepeel, Chartreuse and Moss (Prismacolor), again a ploy to push them forward. I hope all this attention to colour theory pays off! Still more to do on the petals but I hope I don't overdo it - oooh the tension is too much! (hehe).
6 comments:
These are going to be fabulous when there finished because they look amazing already!
Ta muchly Felicity!
I like the way you work the whole picture up at the same time, where as I am inclined to start at the top left and finish at the bottom right. I don't seem to get on with this paper for cp, what colour have you used?
Pauline, yes I like to 'see' the whole thing as I'm working - helps me to get the relative values right. This paper shade is the cool, pale green (they don't name them unfortunately!)used on the reverse side. I do prefer the sanded papers though, just didn't have the right colour for this one.
Looking good! Colour theory def paying off. Like the background very much. It all has a very 'painterly' feel rather than static colour blocks. Nice.
These are delicious so far, can't wait to see how they turn out!
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