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I Hate to Say It, But Geometry Helps

Another slice of my personal humble pie is the fact that I'm pretty bad at math in general and downright horrible at geometry in particular. You'd never ever find me trying to use these skills when making art--or so I thought. But when I was gleaning...

Published 17 Dec 2012 12:12 AM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: painting flowers, How To Paint, perspective drawing, sketching, watercolor painting, Drawing Basics, Art, How to Draw Flowers
Classic, Commercial, and an Art World Constant

You don't have to think terribly hard to figure out that the painting genre that has all of these characteristics in common is floral painting . It is a practice that has inspired artists to create beautiful, graceful paintings for centuries, but...

Published 22 May 2012 10:55 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: painting flowers, How To Paint, watercolor painting, Oil Painting, Drawing Basics, Ink Drawing, Art
4 Ways to Paint Without Preconceptions

Short of lobotomy, we will always have the equivalent of mental trails that our brains follow when we are painting. Artists develop these based on painting techniques that they've learned along the way, or they can be expressions of inherent ideas...

Published 1 May 2012 10:58 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: painting flowers, How To Paint, Portrait Painting, Artist Daily, Oil Painting, Painting, Art
Come Winter, I Head to the Hothouse

The botanical gardens in Washington, DC, near the Capitol. When I'm visiting family in Virginia during winter, I always make a point to walk through the botanical gardens near the Capitol in Washington, DC. It is one of my favorite places, and the...

Published 3 Jan 2012 10:35 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: painting flowers, How To Paint, Oil Painting, Art
You Paint Them By Not Painting Them?

T o Be Where There's Life by Ryan Coleman, oil on canvas, 30 x 40, 2010. The coolest thing I ever learned about painting flowers , specifically how to paint a rose, was when a painting teacher told me that you paint them by not painting them. Back...

Published 8 Dec 2011 10:48 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: painting flowers, How To Paint, Oil Painting, Art
3 Tricks So People Remember My Painting

Notice how the composition of this sparse still life is deft--from the angle of the bottle to the serpentine curve of the ivy sprig. (Dried Ivy by Kristin Kunc, 8 x 12, oil on linen, 2008). I'm not a knick-knack girl, but I do really have a connection...

Published 27 Sep 2011 10:25 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: painting flowers, How To Paint, still life, Art
Who Sent You Flowers? Me!—Our Newest Free eBook on Painting Flowers Is Here!

Rhododendron by James Sulkowski, 2001, oil painting. Notice how the flowers are arranged in a curving S-shape, starting in the back and bring your eye to the foreground. Most artists have a love-hate relationship with floral painting. There's plenty...

Published 7 Aug 2011 10:17 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: painting flowers, How To Paint, Artist Daily, Oil Painting, Art
Draw with Your Brush

When Scott Royston sets his sights on flowers for one of his still life oil painting compositions, he isn’t drawn to tiny buds or small bouquets but expressive flora in full bloom. For him, painting flowers is a gradual process that starts with a rough sketch in his sketchbook and toning his canvas with an earthy pigment to pick up the warm tones of the flowers. His next steps make up an impromptu oil painting lesson that I want to share with you.
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Published 5 Jun 2011 10:49 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: painting flowers, How To Paint, still life, Oil Painting, Drawing Basics, Art

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