pinkroseleaf

If you look back at the last post regarding this painting you will see I painted a light background of sap green, qim pink, cyan blue, perelene green, purple and yellow.  This time I painted it a little darker while painting a leaf negatively.  To paint something negatively just means you don’t paint the object but you paint around the object.

 

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Here is the finished painting.  You can go back to the photo and see how differently it looks from the photograph.  This is very much my intention because I only use the photo as reference for areas I may need to see when making my decisions.  After a certain amount of painting I will then forego the photograph and only look at the painting and allow it to tell me what it needs.   Most artists can always look at one of their paintings and see something else they could “finish” a bit better and its difficult to call a painting done, but I believe except for a highlight on the dew drop this painting is finished for now.