I have titled this painting, "Pearly Pair"
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About Me
- Bill
- Glendale, Arizona, United States
- I am an artist working in oils and watercolors. I have been painting for over 25 years. I have a BS degree in industrial education, and over 40 years as a color separator in the lithographic trade, where I worked on copy cameras, scanners, and, more recently, in Photoshop, and now I am retired from that vocation. I also taught color theory and application at Arizona State University. I enjoy painting, and all my subjects are for sale, unless marked "SOLD." I recently resigned from teaching an oil painting class at a local recreation center, which I did for 9 years, but I still offer private lessons on my glazing technique. I am a conservative, American, Capitalist sort of an artist, and today we have a blithering idiot as President of this United States of America, in the form of Sleepy Joe Biden! He is truly the worstt president I've experienced in my lifetime, and I lived through most of WWII ! Best wishes to our past president, Donald Trump, with sincere hopes that he runs for President once more, so that we may experience the excellence, and common sense that we realized under his administration!! williamfmartin@cox.net Bill Martin ___________________________
Your work is incredible! I absolutely love this!
ReplyDeleteNice. I like this a lot.
ReplyDeleteStellar! Wonderful design and silky look to the irises!
ReplyDeleteThis is stunning!! I recently tried to paint a purple iris from a photo and can't get the little white lines quite right. Any advice?
ReplyDeleteThis is what I do for painting the white lines. I use a very small, pointed, round brush, and usually an abundance of medium. I just paint the lines in using white, while the purple background is still wet, or tacky. A bit of the purple combines with the white, creating a very realistic appearance. Also, I glaze my paintings, so I have probably performed the same painting of the white lines 3 or 4 times, allowing the white to "encroach" into the purple at one pass, and then allowing the purple to "encroach" into the white line at the next. This back-and-forth "encroaching", and "re-establishing of the lines, eventually creates an exceptionally realistic appearing line, as the glazes begin to modify one another as they build up in layers. That is probably the best way to explain my method.
ReplyDeleteIt’s brilliant. I know this post is 10 years on, but I love the explanation so much. Now for whatever that medium is!
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