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Paint Summer Flowers In A Vase Vignette Style
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
- Painting a group – like a flower bouquet – as a single interesting shape
- Using and composing a Vignette format
- Using negative space effectively in a composition
About This Lesson
The bright yellow flowers in this lesson are attractive individually. But for composition purposes, they’ll become a single shape integrates the picture plane.
The composition for the painting is one known as a vignette. This composition idea is characterized by empty negative space along with a composition that reaches out to engage each edge of the picture plane.
Vignette compositions rely on well designed and placed negative space. This one does as well.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED
- Brushes – 1″ Flat, 1/4″ Flat, Medium Round (1/4″ wide at ferrule), Small Round (1/8″ wide)
- A palette with your colors – Cerulean Blue, Burnt Sienna, Quinacridone Deep Gold, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Pthalo or Dioxazine Violet
- Watercolor paper – preferably Arches 140lb Cold Press cut to about 8″ x 8″ – slightly different proportions is OK
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