buttercups

acrylic on panel, 8" x 8"

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I picked these with Elsie while we were playing in the yard today.  I love the randomness of the arangement.  The flowers actually moved as I was painting them, which added to the quirky feeling.  I had started another buttercup painting a few days ago, and had intended to go back to it, but the flowers had moved too much.  This is as far as I got with that little one...

 

acrylic on panel, 4" x 4"

lily of the valley(leaves)

acrylic on panel, 8" x 8"

Sometimes you just can't recreate a mood in a painting.  I loved how my last painting, "branch", turned out and I tried to do another with a similar feel.  But I think this one got too tight and fussy witht the reflections in the glass, and the little flowers wilted before I  could add them in... So here are just leaves.  And I tried a little study of the leaves from the branch...

acrylic on panel, 4" x 4"

 

I am enjoying this little series of clippings.  Next up, buttercups...

branch

acrylic on panel,  8" x 8"

 

Elsie and I were walking along the river, looking for ducks, when I spied these neat little mini-pine-cone-type things.  Not sure what type of tree this is...

Here are few shots of the progression of this one:

First I blocked in the large shapes...

And try to get the overall value pattern...

And then go back in with highlights, details, and refine some edges...

 

strawberries

acrylic 4" x 4"

I debated whether or not to put in the highlight on these strawberries (one, because it looked really tricky with a 1" brush, and two, because I ran out of time). But now seeing it, I think they need the highlight...I'll have to get more because these one have been eaten!

one daisy

acrylic 4" x 4"

I plucked one daisy out of a larger bouquet because I need to keep it simple...

 

(blue)blueberries

 

acrylic 4" x 4"

The hardest part of this painting was photographing it!  The background is a teal-y blue and its such a subtle variation between the blue-berry color that any slight temperture change in the light made such a difference in the contrast.