Last Thursday, Valentine’s Day, one of my students brought this lovely bouquet of flowers to me at class. So we immediately set it up on the table and put a solid paper behind it to make it work for us as a painting.
Step 1- Lay in a shape
Step 2- Place some major flower shapes in the vase
Step 3- Continue developing the flowers and work in a background
Step 4 – Finish flowers with details
Cathy’s version of the Valentine’s Bouquet
And the final photo in this post is Cathy, my thoughtful student who gave me the flowers and this is her version of the same bouquet. This is a great example of how different things look when you are sitting just a few feet apart but looking from a different angle. Every painter’s interpretation is different. Thanks again Cathy for the beautiful flowers.
The Studio 