I haven't done any painting for such a long time that I felt I needed to browse the web and in particular Etsy to find some botanical inspiration.
Here is a small selection of the amazing artwork I found. I hope some of these will be new artists to you, I know they are new to me. I think these prints would add elegance to any room.
By the way, if you click on the image, my Etsy affiliate link will take you directly to the artist's Etsy store.
I love these new carry all pouches Society6 has added to the store. I've updated my store - there are now lots of flowery carry all pouches available...
Summer is well and truly over and all the visitors for this year have gone. Now I just need all the back to school activities to calm down so that I can find some painting time.
I signed up for Donna Downey's Abstract Florals class to help me get back into a painting rhythm.
I thought it was easy to mix pink - it's red and white, right?
But then I tried it. I took Cadmium red and mixed it with Titanium white and got more of a peach than a pink.
So how do we mix a bright pink?
Will Kemp explains below how to mix a bright pink with acrylic paint.
Watching Will's mini color mixing lesson taught me not only how to create different pinks but also the importance of good color theory.
If you are like me and jumped straight into painting without any basic color theory and need to go back to basics I've found some color theory classes that have been very helpful.
The first is Will Kemp's Simple Color Mixing Course. If you liked his pink explanation above you may want to sign up for his class.
The next class is for watercolor called Luminous Watercolor Mixing by Kateri Ewing, but I found it really easy to apply the information to acrylic paint and at the end of the lesson I had a really good color map of my split primary palette.
I love painting flowers and although I'm trying to concentrate on realism my eyes popped out of my head when I saw Alisa Burke's floral wall on InstaGram.
Beautiful, right?
I went and signed up for Alisa's online Flower Power class right away. If you too are inspired you can take a look at her class here 'Alisa Burke - Flower Power'.
I was the vendor at our fifth workshop of the year to help raise funds for South Bay Hands on Art. It was exciting to see my art displayed in one place. Thank you to everyone who showed an interest.
