Blondheim Art Floral Painting Lotus Blossoms

5x7 inches
acrylic on panel
115.00 includes shipping
unframed
Purchase at www.lindablondheim.com


Painters Tip


I like to paint flowers, not in the traditional realist style but rather in an iconic expressionist style. Whether you prefer photo realism or impressionist, or whatever style one can come up with, the secret to good florals is clean crisp color. Flowers are all about color. I include crisp whites in that statement too.

I recommend pre-mixing your colors for florals so that they stay clean. I like to mix from three to five values of each blossom color in advance, carefully laying the values in side by side with very little blending. You want to avoid muddiness in your floral work. After getting the values layed in you can take a clean dry brush and just soften the edges here and there, without destroying the crisp color.