Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Beginning and Finishing

I have started a new piece, another drawing of tulips. I seem to be attracted to them lately. This photo I took on my deck of beautiful orange tulips in the blue glass vase. I'm going to add a background which will be a simple band of landscape and a lot of pale blue sky. And once the background is drawn, I will have to readjust color in the tulips so they will come forward. The surface is Rtistx and I am using Prismacolors, Verithins and Lyra Rembrandts.

Here is my paint tube drawing nearly completed. I have stood the drawing up in my studio so I can walk by for the next few days, look at the piece, and decide if it needs anything else. I am usually critical of my own work but I really love this piece and had so much fun portraying the crinkly old tubes of paint.

6 comments:

Richard Klekociuk said...

Beautiful work Kendra, you have a great respect for the medium of colored pencil.

Teresa said...

Beautiful tulips.. I can see why you're so attracted to them. Such lush colors.

Love those crinkly, wrinkly paint tubes too!

Mikko Tyllinen said...

Wonderful works! Very beautiful! Fantastic tulips and those tubes are really great work! Feel that i want just grab them and stard to paint! Awesome!

Kendra said...

Thank you all! I have added a background to the tulips and I'll post it soon. I really enjoyed working on the paint tubes ... maybe I'll do a series.

Teresa Mallen said...

Stunning tulips and yes those paint tubes do look like they would be fun to render! I am enjoying reading your past posts, especially your experiments with the Neocolors. They are interesting to work with - I too would like a larger set of colours to play with. :-)

Anne Winthrop Cordin said...

Can't wait to see what you do with the tulips...paint tubes are wonderful, it WOULD be a fun series.Thanks for adding my blog and being so supportive.