thinking of you 15

Hi! Today I'm joining along with the PTI Make it Monday challenge where the challenge is to create a color wheel card. Here's my interpretation:

I created a floral color wheel featuring pretty flowers from the PTI Floral Sketches stamp set:

For sketch inspiration, I'm joining along with the Freshly Made Sketches sketch challenge:

Up next is an oil painted field of irises on an 8" x 8" canvas:

I'm linking my painting up with the Paint Party Friday site:

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Be Sweet ;)

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Irises 20

Hi! I hope you are having a great weekend! Today I have a couple of oil painted Irises to share that I painted on an 8" x 8" canvas panel inspired by Nancy Medina:

Lovin' all the vibrant transparent colors in the underpainting but I'm not thrilled with the colors of the Iris on the left. Practice, practice, practice...

I'm linking this painting to the current Paint Party Friday site where they are celebrating their 6th anniversary!

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Be Sweet ;)

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a trio of pink Irises 18

Hi there! I hope you are having a great week! I'm having fun painting Irises. Today I have a trio of pink Irises to share that I painted on a 12" x 12" gessoed board:

My source of inspiration was this photo that I found on the website, "Paint My Photo" courtesy of Debra Babcock:

My goal was to paint a bit more impressionistic Irises. When all is said and done, I am gaining the ability to step back, look at my painting and see where I could make changes. I think I "over stroked" the Irises on this one but it was a learning exercise :)

I started this painting by first sketching the Irises on the surface:

followed with a random application of various acrylic paints:

For color inspiration, I joined along with the current Berry71Bleu color inspiration story:

I'm also linking this painting to the Paint Party Friday site:

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Be Sweet ;)

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a luminescent white Iris 24

Hi there! I hope you had a great weekend! While Scott and I were in the Los Angeles area for a weekend get away recently, we visited the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden. We photographed so many beautiful flowers including the white Iris shown below: 

I've seen so many beautiful paintings featuring various Iris's which inspired me to try to paint this magnificent flower. I referred to one of The Beauty of Oil Painting books by artist Gary Jenkins as I painted this luminescent white Iris on an 8" x 8" gessoed board using acrylics for the background and oils for the rest:

I was pleasantly surprised with my first attempt but I can definitely see where I need to make stroke improvements. I squeezed out more than enough paints on the palette so I'm going to make good use of it and have another go.

Here's what the background looked like before I painted the Iris and foliage. As you can see, I sketched the Iris prior to painting the background:

For color inspiration, I joined along with the Color Throwdown color challenge:

I'm also linking to Paint Party Friday:

Many thanks for stopping by ~ I hope you have a great day!
Be Sweet ;)

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