Painting Florals Dark to Light

Step Three

Finish the Iris with lovely glazes of purple and pink creating a beautiful iridescent hue of purples and pinks.

I painted this painting today, took me about 7 hours including a lunch break. I will be teaching this and a Magnolia Floral all on a 60 minute DVD for The Artist Network TV. Simple and fun approach to painting a beautiful floral, dark-medium, and last but not least light values!!!

Hopefully you will give this a try.

Step Two

Paint in the Medium Values leaving the white of the paper for lighter values.

Step One

Paint in all your dark values first, shadows and all!!

Finished Image

Here is the finished image for the my DVD lesson with Artist Network TV.

I will be leaving May 17th to shoot this DVD and another on florals dark to light.

More on the floral DVD...

Reflective Image for the Artist Network TV Lesson

Step 14 Finishing the reflective image helps anchor my whole still life, and gives the whole painting a finished look. Now to finish painting the flowers at the top of the painting.

Step 13

Painting the reflective image onto the table top, using muted colors and painting what I see is key in this step.

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My lesson for Artist Network TV

STEP 12

At this stage I painted in my first glaze of yellow. I will continue this step by step lesson, this week as I finish this fabulous still life, with all of it's wonderful elements.

STEP 11

Now I will begin to pay attention to the painting the stem and the darkest values of the yellow vase, this is to set up the shapes for the next step which will be painting in the yellow glaze.

STEP 10

Distorted shapes are one of my favorite things to paint you can push and exaggerated the shape to your hearts content.

STEP 9

Now onto the tall yellow vase working at the base of this vase, it is clear thick glass that will show lots of distortion of the objects that are near it.

STEP 8

Here it is a transparent candlestick holder

STEP 7

Paint in the medium values - leaving the white of the paper to for the lighter values.

STEP 6

Now it is time to concentrate on the green beveled candlestick holder, painting the darkest values first, will create what I like to call the "structure" of the glass image.

STEP 5

Painting the base is as simple and changes your values to create a beautiful round edge.

STEP 4

Once the Cut Crystal is painted I now will begin painting the lower portion of the vase, simple vertical strokes developing the beveled edges.

STEP 3

Painting the cut crystal's is just one of the most exciting elements of this vase, I can see so much color and refracted shapes, which encourages me to paint with exaggeration and adding all the colors from the prism.

STEP 2

Now that all the shapes have been painted in I will now concentrate on the cut crystals surrounding the deep red diamond in this cut crystal vase.

STEP 1

I started the first step of my image painting all the darkest values of the diamond shapes.

REFERENCE PHOTO

In May I will be traveling to F&W Publishing to shoot two 60 minute instructional DVDs. They will be aired on ArtistnetworkTV.com. I am honored and am excited to be traveling to Ohio in May. I will be meeting all the fabulous people that work behind the scenes of our favorite instructional books and DVD's. Here is a small preview of my first step by step painting in which I will be painting in one of the two 60 minute DVDs.