Today I wanted to paint on Arches paper. Just as a reward for my good work on portrait 😊
And that needed a subject, I chose to paint flowers.. I haven't painted any in about an year.
This pic of cherry blossoms was in my list for long time. So started working on it
Sketch
Sketch has mainly the 3 flowers in focus and the branches. The rest of the painting is backgound and had to be loosely done.
Process
Started with the background.. all light colours.. manganese blue for sky and Opera pink for flowers.
After it dried, started working on the main flowers. At this moment background was light and it suited well. Should have stopped it here.. but I wanted to make it darker. And it just went bah!
Details
It's doesn't look smooth .. it's all grainy .. lot of granulated pigments.. but looks fine from far. 😐
Final
Total time: 1hr
Size: 8x12in
300gsm Arches cold press paper