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Love painting flowers? This is the fourth lesson of four. Learn about creating a joyful floral painting using broken colour and lyrical brushwork.
Discover how to paint the delicate hue shifts in the white rose and how reflected light makes the petals seem more real. Enjoy!
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Richard is a talented full time artist, who loves painting and teaching.
Hi I’m Richard. I’ve been painting my whole life and back in 2001 I traded my graphic design career for the humble life of a full time artist. I love painting, and as it turns out, I love teaching too.
Nowadays I balance my life between parenting, painting, surfing, travelling and teaching. My work is regularly featured in international art magazines, in galleries in New Zealand and America, on TV and in my Mum’s house.
I give outdoor painting workshops in interesting spots around this beautiful planet of ours and love encouraging people to paint. Two of my favourite artists are John Singer Sargent and Joaquín Sorolla.
My painting website: www.nzpainter.com
I’d love to be your new teacher.
Richard is a master artist with an exceptional skill in identifying and communicating key factors to making successful paintings. I have found his video workshops an excellent resource for improving my own work.
"Bouquet of Roses" 11 x 11" Oil on Canvas by Richard Robinson.
This painting is about joy. I've tried to use lyrical shapes with vibrant colour combinations and fluid brushwork to get that message across. Most of the work is in seeing and painting the subtle hue shifts in the white rose. It took about 1 hour to paint that and 1 hour for the rest of the painting. However it took 3 hours to arrange up the still life. Planning is important!
'The Bouquet' 12 x 12" acrylic on canvas by Jess Paskel
Great design, Jess. The drawing is excellent with clear shapes and you've handled the modelling of the form well, except for the red rose which looks like it's made from a folded napkin. You dropped the ball on that one. Also, I think your grey background feels a little dead and that grey has seeped into the colours in your flowers and left them muddied in a few spots. I wondered for quite some time about how I might enhance this if it were mine, and what finally came to me I illustrate in the photoshopped version below, where I've done three things: 1. Intensified some of the reds in the pink and red rose. 2. Added a red wash over the background to harmonise the whole painting. I also tried it with a grey/green gradated background. 3. Soften a few edges off to add more variation and interest to the painting. I hope that helps a little. Great work!
'White Roses and Others' 30 x 30cm oil on canvas by Elena Sokolova
For a second there I thought I was looking at my own painting Elena! Wow - I can see the great effort you focused on this one going step by step and not letting the drawing slip as you often do when you start painting with abandon. Great job! I hope you learned a lot - it sure looks like you did.
'The Bouquet' 12 x 12" acrylic on canvas by Jess Paskel - Altered
'The Bouquet' 12 x 12" acrylic on canvas by Jess Paskel - Altered
'Rhapsody in Bloom' 12 x 12" oil on canvas by Luba Robinson
Beautifully and subtly crafted, Luba! The contrast of sharp, clear shapes and the softly modelled colour transitions within them is a real pleasure to dwell on. The design is solid, the colour transitions in the painterly background nicely handled. Great work!
'Roses' 16 x 20" acrylic on board by Kym West
Nice work Kym. Equally successful as your lillies painting I would say. Great to see you having fun with the brushwork in the background and even trying out some splattering. I often mask off my detailed centre of interest before a big splatter attack on the background. Maybe that's just me being tight, but I find it hard to splatter over the star of the show. Great work on the subtle colour transitions there in the roses! Very successful. There's that one left close to the bottom there which is looking great too, though the rest need some work. It does feel like the dark leaves are trimming the shape of the white rose a little and creating an unnaturally straight line there. Also I believe the composition would gain a little strength by trimming two inches off the right. Good stuff!
'Roses and Ribbons' 8" x 10" oil on linen panel by Marcia Hodges
Hi Marcia, what beautiful brushwork and colour! Makes me want to try my one all over again! I like use of the red/green complementary colour scheme, your attention to detail in the centre of the roses with all their complex reflected and glowing light effects, your treatment of sharp edges versus soft edges. I do feel that some of the leaves could have been dealt with more deftly. Richard Schmid says the real test of a floral painting is in the handling of the leaves, I expect because they're rarely just where you want them, are very complex often with mutliple overlapping depths and with few visual keys to their form in this case because they're so dark. The artist must also battle with their own feelings of, 'the flower's more important so I don't really care about the leaves'. I certainly experience that in all my flower paintings. You've made an outstanding job of depicting the form of the main flower especially. Love it! Keep up the good work.
$15.00USD
$15.00USD
$15.00USD
$15.00USD
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