In the spirit of painting your heart out I am going to share a painting that had me using various tools. I have been thinking about my abstract flower paintings as gardens that I could walk through. The pops of color and big vine leaves make me smile and feel the way I feel when I walk through an actual garden. These days it has been morning walks. I’m deep in thought and suddenly a pop of color captures my eye.

I wanted to paint leisurely summer. I put my color mixing skills to use. I mixed Quinacridone Magenta with Primary Yellow to get a warmer yellow and orange, beautiful! I almost let this painting go. It felt boring so I kept working or shall I say play. I finger painted flowers on the leaves. I made sure to keep Magenta my color hero. Like my student, I took a round brush to create teal textured strokes for the background. I finished with gold green Neocolor details. Time to revel in my ideas is the summer I speak of. This always leads to my best art.

Have a tool or painting idea that you want to share? I’d love to learn about it.

If you want to purchase my yellow and pink flower botanical leaves painting, you can click on the link here.

With Love,

Mireya