Hi all 😊
I wanted to share with you today my Gouache painting of a butterfly on some Agapanthus Flowers and show you the progress steps / step by steps of how I created it. (SBS)
Title: ”Purple”
I finished this painting 05-2012 and it is one of my earlier Artworks.
I started my art in 2011, I am self taught. I love to share my progress steps of my artworks with you all and the world. 😊
This original painting is sold to one of my collectors and found its home in Devon, England.
I do have all kind of prints from this painting available, on different objects, if you would like a print from it have a look In My PrintShop!
~The Dimensions are 23 x 40 cm / 9.1 x 15.7 inch
~Underground is a mount-board.
~Gouache paints I am using are from Dahler Rowney and Winsor and Newton.
~reference photo used with permission from Cynthia Mattiuz Ashley.
~It depicts a butterfly on Agapanthus Flowers. 🦋
This painting/the subjects are painted with the normal brushes and gouache paint. The background/clouds I airbrushed with my airbrush gun and white gouache paint. I did add some blue with the airbrush on one side to give the sky a gradient flow in the blue.
Step 1
Here you see I sketched in the main lines of the subjects. The flowers and butterfly. I started the background with the airbrush and added with white paint the clouds over the sketch. Then I painted with the normal brush and gouache paint the butterfly. So the subjects: butterfly and flowers will go on top of the clouds. By doing this I create a lot of depth.
Step 2
I started painting the stems of the flowers.
Step 3
Here I started with the flower buds and leaves.
Step 4 detail
More progress and a detailed photo of the intricate details, to show you how many shades of purple and blue I use throughout the flowers. To bring every tiny flower to life, give it depth.
Step 4
The full painting.
Step 5 finished painting
Here you can see the finished painting.
As it was traveling overseas it needed to be packed well and the collector and I decided to ship it without its glass in the frame.
(Framed Painting while it arrived at my collectors home.)
On my collectors wall in the office.
I do love it when collectors send me a photo from my artworks hanging up on their walls. 🥰 Artists do you too? Do you ask for it or just hope they do?
Thank you for looking and reading. I hope you enjoyed my Step by Step of this butterfly on some Agapanthus Flowers painting. 🦋😊
With my future new artworks, I will make a more detailed step by step for you, maybe even videos.
Any questions or comments, let me know. Always happy to help.😊 And talk about art.
Have a great day all 😎👋🏻
Grtz Jackie
Unless stated otherwise: All art and photos used in my posts are taken, created and owned by me. If you wish to use any of my photographs, please contact me first. As I have used some commercially myself. We don’t want that you or somebody else gets into trouble. 😉