Yesterday I showed you a painting of waterlilies inspired by a photograph from one of my summer road trips. Today's post is all about the other painting I worked on last month, which was (interestingly enough) inspired by photographs of dahlias taken on my other summer road trip, where my husband and I drove through part of Ontario, Canada to get from Michigan to his cousin's wedding in Rochester, New York.
In Rochester, NY, we visited two gardens, both of which had dahlias. I used a few different photographs to create this composition, and floated the stemless blooms in a background of another one of my patterns.
I splattered paint at several different times as I built up the layers of this watercolor to give it a vintage, aged look. There are hints of metallic shine in some of the splatter, as I had remnants of metallic red and blue paint on my palette from earlier watercolors. :)
And, just like the other painting, I used colored pencil to add a bit of detail, and heighten the contrast by darkening the darkest parts of the dahlia flowers.
Here are a couple detail shots:
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| "Splattered Dahlias" - Watercolor & Colored Pencil, Oct. 2012, 11"x15" |
In Rochester, NY, we visited two gardens, both of which had dahlias. I used a few different photographs to create this composition, and floated the stemless blooms in a background of another one of my patterns.
I splattered paint at several different times as I built up the layers of this watercolor to give it a vintage, aged look. There are hints of metallic shine in some of the splatter, as I had remnants of metallic red and blue paint on my palette from earlier watercolors. :)
And, just like the other painting, I used colored pencil to add a bit of detail, and heighten the contrast by darkening the darkest parts of the dahlia flowers.
Here are a couple detail shots:
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