Saturday, June 22, 2013

Tropical Leaf Fantasy




Well this step by step demo is with liquid acrylics, just truning up the music and doodling, what fun!

Of course the hard part comes after we play, with pulling together the darks and getting the shapes to read well.

I always look for interesting shapes in an abstract, all differing in size and proportion if I can.
Small intricate shapes against the larger more dominant areas.

I also worked in some watercolors with this one, but for the most part it is liquid acrylics.

This is an 8 x 8" on Arches #140 paper.

The next post will be the final signed painting up close and personal.

2 comments:

Rae Andrews, Contemporary Texas Artist in all media said...

Janine M. Comments via email:

This looks like funnnnn. Did you use any reference photos or your imagination ?

Rae Andrews, Contemporary Texas Artist in all media said...

Not really Janine, I had some leaf photos to 'bounce' off, but really this was totally out of my imagination.
Thanks for the question though and yes, it was great fun.
Xx