A pretty oil painting that has a unique characteristic about it. When a light is placed just above the “Glowing Iris” painting to shine down upon it, the Iris flower will appear to have a glow around itself. The warm glow then radiates outward into the sky area and lower landscape.
The vision of the “Glowing Iris” is to capture the viewers eye in the lower left portion of the painting on the pathway where it meets with the stem of the flower. Your focus is pulled along the pathway as the path moves into the background and fades some. As the curving path reaches upward towards the sky and your eye moves along the same route. The top pedals of Iris flower is where your gaze comes to rest and as you take in the warm relaxing glow around the flower. In time the rich darker lower painted pedals demand your attention and down the stem your focus goes to start the visual journey all over again. It is a visual loop with artist oil painted colors.
The painting of the sky area was done using colors Cobalt Blue, Halo Blue, Crimson and Indian Yellow. It is Indian Yellow which gives a warm glowing effect around the Iris flower. If you are painting a similar sky painting remember that keep the yellow oil paints from the blue oil paints is necessary in keeping sky area from turning green. In this painting Crimson was used as a barrier between the Indian Yellow and Blues to avoid wrong color variations. If your an oil painting artist, color techniques using Indian Yellow can be found in the home workshop painting DVD video by artist Byron Pickering entitled “The Wild Sea”.
I had a wonderful informative three hour instruction course with a large number of other interested artists today. From the art marketing side of things I kind of compare myself as an artist on a super highway with lots of posted signs, exit and entrance ramps. Today’s artist marketing presentation helped me to focus on getting on the right highway in order to make my art work financially successful. Oh it’s a gonna take a lot of driving but at least now I can eliminate the wrong turns and focus on a bright sunny Sunday drive. For those artists out there looking for Artists directions on the visual art marketing highway I suggest you say hello to Wendy H. Outland by visiting her site “WHO”. And yes, lets not forget I am a Professional Artist.
It’s about starting from the beginning, making small pencil marks and letting them flow across a sheet of artist material to compose an art work from our minds eye. It’s about learning to see a form of space once again that we lost sight of in our early schooling years. It’s about opening up the creative side of the mind which was replaced and locked out by the logic side of the mind. It is about you and letting yourself out into the world to see that no one, not anybody else has what is inside of you. It is You can Draw and Yes You can Paint. It is Draw-N-Paint
Draw-N-Paint takes the visual arts learning process to the beginning. Starting with the drawing of simple forms we look at how these small forms are part of large forms or images. Some of these forms are squares, cones, triangles and circles. We learn how to measure these forms with a well known tool called a grid. Then we build on the visual art knowledge we have gained by adding new artist techniques each day to what we have learned to draw as realistically as we can.
After the graphite pencils come the artist oil paints. This is were we take the images we have drawn, place them on an artist painting canvas and create an oil painting of our own. We go through each step of the painting process from start to finish. From the blank canvas to one filled with color.
So find what it’s like see as an artist views the start of an illustration and then builds on it. See how to focus on simple forms within a picture that is either on a photograph, in your mind or where ever and then make it real. Welcome to Draw-N-Paint.
. It is about you and letting yourself out into the world to see that no one, not anybody else has what is inside of you. It is You can Draw and Yes You can Paint. It is 
