@daring-celt 1 May 2022

The Window in Gloxinia (oil painting) Hi my friends! Thinking about drawing spring flowers, I saw an interesting photo on the Internet - a window entwined with gloxinia flowers. I decided that I like this story!

Oil paints here would be the most suitable material. Today I used a new set from Germany And two synthetic brushes of cause! Instead of canvas, I use special paper for oil and acrylic.

I changed the shape of the window because I don't like the sharp corners that don't work well with the delicate clusters of flowers. And outlined the line of plants

I start from the background. This is a jagged old textured wall. To write it, I mixed red vermilion, yellow ocher, whitewash. I added viridan green here and there in some areas to get a neutral taupe color, reminiscent of a concrete surface.

The window, according to my plan, will be the same main element as the gloxinia branch. Therefore, I take saturated colors for her - grassy green and cerulean blue. In order to draw glass, I take ultramarine and a mixture of green and ocher - as if a reflection of the sky and greener. With a mix of the same colors, I draw a falling shadow from the window on the wall.

In order to draw clusters of gloxinia, I make several mix of colors - vermilion red, ceruleum blue, ultramarine, crimson red and white. Distant clusters will be colder tones, lilac, and those closer to the viewer will be lavender. For a dark trunk, I take burnt umber and ultramarine.

At this step, I decided to work with the texture of the wall - I added more texture, detailed a fragment of brickwork, somewhere I smoothed out sharp color transitions more. Made the lower part of the wall, near the flowers, darker

Small details remained - glare on the window, on the trunk of the plant and on the flowers I make clusters of flowers more voluminous. I form a more realistic green over them - using the same green and ocher (I add ultramarine in the shadows). Here and there I make deeper drop shadows from the plant on the wall and shade the window from the flower greens.

Here is such a new picture with a spring mood I got today! With Love...