I would not use Alizarian …. )
Acrylic and oil pastel flower painting tutorial : One Rose
May 28, 2010
This painting was done for the Painting 65 red roses “mosaic” painting, it shows the steps I took to paint one rose. I used acrylic, gel medium, and some oil pastels, adding layers and scrubbing off some paint in the process.
Acrylic and oil pastel flower painting tutorial : One Rose
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| Blue underpainting in the background and gel medium on the rose |
Red in the background and yellow underpainting |
| More yellow underpainting | Alcohol sprayed on the background |
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| White on the background, red and blue layers on the flower, some white oil pastels for contouring |
Scrubbing the background and some parts of the flower |
| Pink layers in the background, more contrast on the rose |
Scrubbing paint off the background |
| More contrast on the rose with acrylics and oil pastels |
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Sandrine Pelissier
Originally from France, I have been living in North Vancouver, Canada for the past 20 years. My work has been collected and exhibited extensively in Canada and internationally. I am also part of the Art Rentals and sales program of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Many of my paintings have been published in Art books and magazines (Artist Magazine, Watercolor Artist Magazine, Acrylic Magazine, International Artist Magazine). I wrote 2 art instruction books with North Light/F+W Books. I have been writing for the last 5 years for my blog: paintingdemos.com, that has a mailing list of about 10 000 subscribers and about 20 000 visitors per month. I am an active member in the community, as a co-founder of the North Shore Art crawl, a co-founder of a weekly life drawing group, a board member of the North Vancouver Arts Council, and have been invited as a juror for public art, art grants and juried exhibitions. You can read more about my collaborations here.
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Pink Rose in oil and a WIP of the Rose “Elfe” (Fairy Rose)
In my previous post I mentioned that I was working on a pink Rose in oil. Today I finished this painting. It needed longer then I thought, because I really needed to get a feeling for the oil colours again. But with each brushstroke I was getting more confidence.
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Currently I am working on another Rose in oil. It is a creamy white Rose. The german name is Rose Elfe, which means in english: Rose Fairy.
Here is a photo of my working process.
As you can see I covered my white canvas with a lemon yellow underwash in acrylic. I chose acrylic because it dries very fast.
I am right handed and so I started in the left corner. I do not work in layers. It is totally different to my watercolors. I paint in a direct way using opaque and transparent colours. I apply my colours just where I see them and then blend them together. It also allows me to soften my edges immediately. But this doesn’t mean that I never have to go back to some areas. Often I see things later where I need to add another layer or to darken areas or to lighten then or to change the colours a bit. But it gives you a good suggestion about how I work with oils. I am using only Walnut oil and Walnut Alkyd Medium from M. Graham – no turpentine – nothing else.
Tips for painting a rose using oil
When I paint shadows I use some color of the rose with a touch of complimetary which is green for shadow A little Alizarin as well.
Not sure about your technique I paint my roses in layers and use various reds Quin red ,Scarlet red ,Permanent rose this allows me to achieve depth in the reds as I don’t cover the whole area of the previous layer.
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February 13, 2012 at 6:28 pm #1155327
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I would not use Alizarian …. )
February 13, 2012 at 6:32 pm #1155319
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Perm Alizarin crimson gives me a lovely shadow color as it’s a staining I can get it dark enough.
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February 13, 2012 at 6:56 pm #1155320
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If you’re painting opaquely, I would try cadmium red deep and lamp black first for the shadows.
I’m not aware of any highly saturated dark reds on the market and would be interested to know of any.
There isn’t any blue in those shadows. Blue will make the red more purple.
I’m not sure about alizarin crimson because I don’t use it. From what I see from swatches, it has a dark mass-tone so it may be suitable. It is on the blueish side though, and it’s a transparent pigment which may make it difficult to work with in an opaque way. It hasn’t got a great lightfastness rating either. The light red would be also be cadmium red deep, or cadmium red, (or cadmium red deep with a little cadmium orange) desaturated a little with a little neutral of the same value.
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February 13, 2012 at 7:00 pm #1155328
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Im showing it knocked down with white Ron :thumbsup: the Perment Aliz that is … .Yes try some out , its what I used on that rose I posted which was not red in color tone
February 13, 2012 at 7:07 pm #1155321
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Sharon, I edited my post while you were posting and changed the bit where I said I may have to buy some. The not so good lightfastness turned me away from it.
Ron
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February 13, 2012 at 7:16 pm #1155329
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Sharon, I edited my post while you were posting and changed the bit where I said I may have to buy some. The not so good lightfastness turned me away from it.
whos Sharon Ron :confused: , Im Alex aka Sandra:D …. yeah I saw that , cool :thumbsup:
February 13, 2012 at 7:19 pm #1155325
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Heres another suggestion as maybe an option. Transparent Oxide Brown and Pyro;ene red ( probably the same as maybe cad red deep) — then cad red.
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February 13, 2012 at 7:25 pm #1155322
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whos Sharon Ron :confused: , Im Alex aka Sandra:D …. yeah I saw that , cool :thumbsup:
Oops, sorry.
Ron
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February 13, 2012 at 7:40 pm #1155330
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Oops, sorry.
dont cry , or Ill have to wipe your tears …:o :wink2: Ron your a great dude
February 13, 2012 at 9:34 pm #1155323
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I would like to address an issue that I read hear on WC sometimes about adding a complementary to a colour to darken it. In this case, adding green to red.
This works well with some colours for a small amount of darkening, but after that the colour starts to be pulled toward neutral and then on to the complementary colour. It works better with transparent colours, and less well with opaque colours.
(I’ve never quite understood the reason for adding the complementary to a shadow.) Attached is an image from David Brigg’s fantastic web site about colour.
http://www.huevaluechroma.com/index.php
I recommend it to anyone serious about colour.
(A) is a photo of cadmium red and cobalt green mixed together. They are almost perfect pigment complementaries.
(B) Similar to a colour wheel, this is an analysis of the photo showing almost a straight line between pigments, almost passing through neutral.
(C) This is a side view where white is at the top and black at the bottom.
Red as it darkens should go directly toward black at the bottom but you can see here that it pulls toward neutral fairly quickly. Unfortunately, adding black to a colour isn’t a perfect solution either as it will also send it partly toward neutral at first rather than straight toward black.
One solution is to slightly desaturate the full intensity red so that it lies on the same straight line as the darker red/black mix.
I would look for the strongest saturation dark red that I could find, and modify the light red.
I might do a little research on how to hit the highest chroma dark reds (compared wit Munsell charts) and see what I can come up with.
