I love irises and have done other paintings of them. It's been a while so it was time to return to this image once again. Here is the original photo of tiny irises that I was growing several years ago:
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| original photo |
Next step was to work up the photo for the painting.
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| photoshopped version |
I decided to use a more water color type approach to the painting and spend less time on the minute details of the flowers. The painting is 24" x 36 ".
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| Tiny irises #1 |
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| Tiny irises #2 |
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| Tiny irises #3 |
Now that the painting is covered, next step will be not to overdo the thing, keep the lightness and movement that I've created, but bring the painting to a finished state. Good luck that!!
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| Tiny Irises #4 |
Two of the three flowers have been essentially finished, with the one at the top still in need of more paint. I also worked on the lower half of the painting for many hours, attempting to vary the greens I'm using and also break up the forms to add more space. In all, there is more color correcting to do in the leaves, although I think they're going in the right direction. Trying to decide how much more to do on the flowers. I like the abbreviated sense of detail, but I also like to know what I'm looking at...
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Tiny irises #5
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I'm going to put this painting aside and wait until it's back in Philadelphia for final revisions (or, that's what I'm thinking right now). In the main, I'm very happy with how this turned out. Although it's easy to get image fatigue, I see that revisiting an image with new ideas and capabilities is actually a good idea.
