Here’s the second lesson in How to Paint Flowers series of lessons by Singaporean artist Sri Rajes who is kind enough to share her art tips and tricks with you. You’re more than welcome to try them out and leave the comments, questions, ideas and let us know about the results you achieve while using Sri Rajes’ technique.
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Show me how to paint flowers – Lesson #2
by Sri Rajes
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- Place ready made canvas on table.
Press the desired colours on the canvas.
Do not dilute.
Put one colour in the centre.
Put another colour surrounding the colour which is in the centre.
Initial stage try to use only 2 colours example: Blue Beauty (see image below)
Use a drinking glass which has a round base at the bottom.
Press on to paint and lift glass. (This is the trick).
Keep on repeating until you cover the whole canvas.
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Blue Beauty, floral painting by Sri rajes
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Yellow Beauty, floral painting by Sri Rajes
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Red Beauty, floral painting by Ruth Read
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This is very simple. I had a teacher one time that used saran wrap plastic sheets she would wad up in her hand and do something like this. I can see that this could be very cool throwing a lot of interesting things into the painting. (as you do with the sand).
Thank you for giving these lessons.
What a nice simple technique. And like Ruth said, you can do a variety of things with it.
Thanks for the tips. Texture makes some paintings amazing. It really brings things to life.
I LOVE your tips and ideas!!! They wind up looking like kaleidoscopes, my favorite toy as a child and still! Thank you for so generously sharing your techniques. Your work is fabulous!!!
Kaleidoscope was my favorite toy also – always!!
Dear Evoltage
You should try. Very simple. I will be posting about 12 lessons.
See http://www.fill your walls look for artist then search for sri rajes. You can see my paintings you can also login and comment. My painting traditional customs, Festival of lights is placed at UE SQUARE in Singapore for people to view.
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