Red Exotic Flower

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I must admit, I have been having lots of fun painting flowers.  My favorite color is red and I really wanted to paint a red elegant flower.

I first started, as always with a light pencil sketch.

I then continued with the background on the left and eventually started painting the petals.  I felt like blocking in the bigger parts of the paintings would give "life" to the painting.

I then continued working from the outside in on the right side of the canvas.

Finally I began painting the inside of the flower.  Here it wasn't so important to me to follow the sketch.  I just painted where I thought would look better with each color.

Here is the completed painting.

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Bath Flowers Series

I have started a new series entitled Bath Flowers.  This series was inspired by the Metamorphosis painting (photo below).



Metamorphosis

Being a photographer allows me to set up exactly what I envision for a painting, photograph it, and use the photographs I like from the photo shoot as reference material for my paintings.  I can add, change, or delete things (such as color, add objects, etc...) digitally or I can do it on the canvas as I am painting.

With the first photo shoot, I had an idea of a female subject inside a bathtub surrounding by flowers.  From there came the inspiration for this first painting entitled The Beauty and her Flowers.

As always I started with a pencil sketch on canvas.  I began the painting by starting with the face and the portion of the hair next to the face.  By painting this portion of the hair while the paint is still wet, the edges are smooth and blend well with the paint on the face.

Taken in Kat's studio

I then continued to finish up the hair.



Finishing up the hair

Next I wanted to work on the background.  I felt that in order to get the "feel" for the painting and make sure they colors of the subject were correct, the background needed to be worked on.  I wanted to add some yellows to the shadow to make the painting a little warmer.

Working on the background

Next, I went back down to the neck area as the face now felt like it was floating.  I then moved up to the arm.




Working on the arm


Lastly.  I started working on the flowers.  I wanted colors that where going to pop.  In the original image, the flowers were white and red.  However, I felt like an orange-red color would really pop.

Bathflowers by Kat Vazquez

Stay tuned for more in this series.

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