Lori's Florida Paintings

   Rough sketch on bright orange ground.

The colors. Put paint on

the edges of the palette, then you can mix on the bottom.

 

A bit of paint for the cloud. The sky is ultramarine blue, cerulean at the bottom, the

bottom of the cloud is permanent rose mixed with the ultramarine all mixed with white.

The perm. rose is very strong, a tiny bit will tint another color.

Pushing the white top of the cloud down.  A big knife makes this easy.

Dark colors roughed in.  Still using the big knife. Ultramarine and

viridian green for the darks. Cad. yellow mixed with the green or

blue for the new leaves on top.

The palm fronds put on top of the darks. Photo has glare on it.

A ridge of paint on the small knife, lay on the scraped trunk of the

tree and push sideways. I got some indian red out for the darks in the

trunks.  They have yellow and white on the sunny sides.

Palm trunks scraped and sunlit tops of bushes added.

Amount of paint for a bromeliad on the tip of the knife. Slide down

and the leaf is made. Flowers are made with the red paints, a few dabs

for each, pink on tops. Hibiscus are five dabs, a bit of dark for the

centers and a bit of white for highlights.  Make flowers face different

ways, not all looking the same way.  Put some closer together and

some farther apart so they don't look like a pattern on a cloth.

About finished, I stepped back and didn't like the ground, scraped

it off.

The ground re-finished.  Also gave the far left palm a longer trunk.

Changed the middle background. I will probably fine tune it a little

more.