After painting the 3 pots of flowers, the rooster, the rose and the vase of jonquils (see previous post), I saw a lovely painting of some hydrangeas. I LOVE hydrangeas, and I decided to paint some. I designed my own vase, and used the painting I'd found to see what a hydrangea should look like. Here's the first attempt:
It was awful! The vase was too tall and too thin, and the flowers looked like they were stacked on top of each other. So I started over - changed the vase and made fewer flowers. The following photos show the progression from blocking out the blooms and chalking in the shape of the vase to the final painting:
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| Painting #5 - "Hydrangeas in Vase" (Acrylic paint on canvas. Completed May 2016) |
I'm finished with this painting. I'm not pleased with the flowers because the individual blooms are not shown. It looks more like giant colored cotton balls. However, I DO like the general look of the painting. Although the blooms are not individualized, they're recognizable as hydrangeas.
Again, I had looked at a photo to see specifically what a hydrangea looked like. Real flowers, I decided - that's what I needed, and that's what I did next.
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