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How to paint Flowers from imagination : Feeling Good

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Feeling Good

Mixed media on canvas

24 x 24 inches

Available, click here to buy.

Sometimes as an artist you want to express yourself and find a more personal style, but this is more difficult to do ifyou try to stay too close from a reference picture. Here is a technique that will allow you to paint a still life from yourimagination and free yourself from reference pictures.

Here is how you can paint a still life from imagination, without a reference picture

You will need:

Canvas, I used 3 24 x 24 inches pre-streched canvas

Acrylic medium, I used Golden OPEN Acrylic Medium – Gloss

Fluid Acrylics, I used Liquitex Ink in yellow and blue

White acrylic paint, I used Pebeo in titanium white

Payne’s grey Acrylic paint, I used Pebeo

A graphite pencil

Red Sakura Micron marker

White Oil Sharpie marker

Watercolor paint, I used Yarka watercolors.

You have many ways of painting an abstract background, in this case I did spread a few drops of liquid acrylic on topof gel medium and did spray the canvas with a bit a water.

Let your background dry thoroughly before going to the next step.

If you want a more complex background or if you want to introduce another color, you can always add another layeron top of the fluid acrylic, either with fluid acrylic, or with watercolor or another medium.

Look at the abstract patterns, our brain doesn’t like non sense( difficult to believe I know…) so it always try to makesense of abstract patterns, if you look long enough at the painting you will start to see designs and shapes emerging.Another way to do it is to choose a theme, like flowers, underwater scene, people, still life, faces and then try to seethem on the painting. Once you start to see shapes, outline them with a pencil.

Choose an acrylic color, I personally like white, and paint around everything except the outlined shapes.

If you want to, you can paint over some areas with another color, here Payne’s grey for the vase.

An Oil sharpie marker works well to add lighter designs on a darker background.

You can also use archival acid free markers to add designs around the shapes you isolated.

You can also make new designs on the white background.

If the marker you are using are water-resistant, you can also paint over them with watercolors

You can add any kind of designs, including zentangle inspired designs.

Title: Feeling GoodMedium: mixed media on canvas.Size: 24 x 24 inchesPrice:: CAD 850

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