Tulip Painting 1 update

brush pallett paint for tulip – Lynda Hoffman-Snodgrass

Love my messy watercolor pallet, so many fun colors that can be created! The little dishes are for creating pools of color that I will be using for the entire painting.  At this time the only brush that I have used to paint on this tulip painting is a Cheap Joes  #12 Round Golden Fleece Synthetic Watercolor Brush. The substrate is a full sheet of  300lb Fabriano Artistico Watercolor Paper.  I will post the paint colors later with the companies that manufacture them.

Here are some photos to show you the progress made since my last post.

Tulip step 6 – Lynda Hoffman-Snodgrass

Wanted to share with you some of the layering process that I use.  You can see that I have laid in the light washes where the lightest color will be then move to the medium and dark tones.

Tulip step 7 – Lynda Hoffman-Snodgrass

Tulip step 8 – Lynda Hoffman-Snodgrass

I choose to cut in with rich darks under the right petal of the main tulip to help pop the flower into the foreground.  It seems a little drastic right now with the white paper next to it. but once color is filled in on the petals I think it will look fine.

Tulip step 9 – Lynda Hoffman-Snodgrass

The background and middle ground seem pretty complete to me now.  I find my eye travels around the painting nicely.  May go back in and tweek it later, but for now I am ready to start work on the main tulip.  Feeling both excited and anxious about pulling this painting off.  I will start with the lower left petal as it is tucked behind the one that I will probably paint last which is closest to the viewer.