My students often get to see my paintings in progress and they are interested in how I create my painting and the techniques I have used. So for those of you who are interested, these are photographs I took from the start to the end of painting ‘Bellflowers’.
For this painting I have used a combination of Liquitex acrylic inks and acrylic paint on watercolour paper. The paper is stretched to a board (I use Ken Bromley stretcher boards which I think are great!)
I usually start by painting a coloured background; often this is a colour I feel will be dominant in the final image. For Bellflowers I then started to sketch the main flower shapes using washes of white paint.
As a student my work was predominantly in printmaking and I feel this still influences the way I paint, methodically building up layers of colours. Once the main shapes and colours are mapped out I can then work the finer details and subtler colours into the painting. In some areas, I have also scratched back into the paint to reveal the layers below. It’s these last stages that can take many hours as I work to achieve the colours and contrasts that capture the flowers as I remember seeing them.
A big thank you to all those who have bought a Bellflower print 😊
So far a fabulous £150 has been raised and donated to Horatio’s Garden Wales ❤️
50 Flowers for 50 Charities 