Monday, June 13, 2011

"The Poppy II" in Acrylic

Phase 3 complete.  From my original image, to the prismacolor rendering, and finally to an acrylic painting.  As with most things on this blog, this was my first attempt at anything like this.  I completed "The Poppy II" in two stages.  I did the background palm frond first.  I really surprised myself with my color mixing.  Like I had mentioned in the prisma drawing the palm frond is more of a dusty greenish-blue.  I was able to achieve the color I wanted and it's variations by mixing titanium white, thalo blue and cadmium yellow medium.  It's going to sound so silly, but I was really impressed with myself to achieve those colors and I was ecstatic when I finished it.  Lastly I completed the poppy.  Again using primarily cadmium yellow medium and cadmium red light.  The purple-reddish shadowing was a mix of cadmium red light, thalo blue, and alizarin red and thinned out.  The poppy's center was alizarin red and thalo blue.  After everything was initially completed I decided to go back and give a little more definition to the palm.  Using the same mixture of thalo blue, titanium white and cadmium yellow medium I lined along each of the strands.  This was all completed on 16 x 20 gallery wrapped stretched canvas which I painted along the edges so it doesn't require framing.  Thank for looking and I hope you enjoy my interpretation of a poppy.


Phase 1: Background

"The Poppy II"
Acrylic on 16x20 Canvas



Side by side comparison of the acrylic painting and prismacolor drawing.









3 comments:

  1. I do LOVE the poppy! It's phenomenal in all its incarnations. (I especially love the truck sitting on the table in the comparison photo). GREAT JOB on this one girl! Are you having it framed?

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  2. What patience to do a prismacolor on such large scale!

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  3. Most likely frame the prisma, the acrylic is gallery wrapped so it doesn't need framing.

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