Painting Flowers and Foliage Technique

               

All art stats  profess  that the most popular type of art paintings are images of foliage or flowers.

Whether it is watercolor flowers /foliage or acrylic, or oil.

Many collectors love and covet a flower/ foliage or painting or two.

Lately, there  also is an interest. big interest in small wrapped canvas of wild flowers and leaves.

So this says , maybe  an artist should have a work of 

flower or foliage painting to display and or sell to collectors.

A great collections or work sometimes consist of seasoned images, such as weather, of flowers and foliage.

Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.

Really I love my foliage images ,because I like painting them in watercolor.

The watercolor images are drawn leaves on the 140 lb paper .

You can use a tracing pattern the type you buy at a craft store. 

Or go outside and pull a leaf out of a tree.

I just pick a certain leaf and free draw it on my paper.

Then I mask it out with rubber cement . An art supply that you can buy easily from Walmart .

I like using rubber cement because it leaves a texture , after I remove it with my finger or eraser, that helps creates the value in my leaves.

Then I pick out my color for my background and paint the background in blotches , dark and light. 

After this I drop  jewels into the wet paper. I use contrasting colors from the background.

A jewel is a watery load of color that you squeeze from your paint brush and let drop onto the paper and run where  ever. It is cool.

I suggest you as an artist , try painting foliage or flowers and try the jewel technique in your background. YOU MIGHT LIKE IT .

You can work with this and create  your own style with the jewel technique. Its always fun to experience and explore. And it will make you a better artist.

Give me feedback and tell me how it went. 

Also you are always welcome to  visit my website:

belinda-lawson.fineartamerica.com and www.stores.ebay.com/county-art-loft

have fun arting