@daring-celt 28 February 2022

Australian flame pea (pastel painting) Hi my friends! Thinking about what can you draw on the eve of the onset of spring I didn't come up with anything better than exotic flowers. This flower, for example, has a complicated name Chorizema cordatum (or Australian flame pea) I liked it by colorful petals as butterfly

Reference from Pinterest For the image of this flower, I took tinted dark green cardboard with a smooth surface and dry pastel in bright colors. https://i.pinimg.com/564x/05/1e/a4/051ea4296fa8888dd0dc2c8934d92f85.jpg Sketch

Approximately this will be the color palette (in the process of work, I added a couple more contrasting colors - in particular, dark green and deep purple

I started the drawing with the stem of the flower. To do this, I used two colors of green and warm yellow. Lighting is uneven due to large colors - presumably coming from somewhere to the right. Somewhere on the shadow side I add touches of turquoise color

The flowers now. The lower petals are pink-crimson, turning into a very dark one towards the middle (that's why I took a purple crayon)

The upper petals have a rich orange color (because of this, it is possible that the flower is called "flame pea"), but another side of it is darker, the unopened bud also has a dark color, I painted it in red

To show the smooth curve of the petal, I paint it with a dark terracotta color closer to the core and make a few yellow strokes closer to the edge, but not the very edge. When all the flowers were drawn, I slightly feathered the strokes so that the individual flowers mixed up and created a smooth blending. And I also decided to highlight the two central flowers with a contrasting green color Closer to the edge of the leaf, this light green color will be shaded with dark green.

With this dark green color, I emphasize the flower stem from the illuminated side. And I strongly shade the background green colors, fitting them into the color of the cardboard

So... last step for details. I take some pastel pencils for it and draw a veins on the petals

Somewhere I refine the contours, somewhere, on the contrary, I smooth out too sharp strokes. Yes, I think now my drawing is ready!

A flower in the end of winter... if you don't live somewhere in the tropics, you can draw it. I'll be glade if my drawing like to someone With Love...