Capturing the blues
I've spent most of the afternoon painting the beautiful blue hydrangeas at the french gîte we are currently staying at. Hydrangeas are a firm favourite of mine, I love the variety of colours that they come in and the colour combinations that you can get in a single plant.
Hydrangea (/haɪˈdreɪndʒiə/; common names hydrangea or hortensia) is a genus of 70–75 species of flowering plants native to southern and eastern Asia (China, Japan, Korea, the Himalayas, and Indonesia) and the Americas. By far the greatest species diversity is in eastern Asia, notably China, Japan, and Korea. Most are shrubs 1 to 3 meters tall, but some are small trees, and others lianas reaching up to 30 m (98 ft) by climbing up trees.
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For this piece I lay my watercolours out on the grass and sat underneath the hydrangea plants painting.
I then built up layers of white, green, blue and light blue paint in expressive lines to suggest tone and movement.
'Expressive Hydrangeas' -2017
I admire her power of creation, I really like this type of work of nature, congratulations lady @opheliafu, thank you very much for these beautiful works
Thank you for your lovely comment @jlufer! You are a great supporter of my work.
Wow, I really like your painting. Well done!
I'm Just getting started here on Steemit.
Looking forward to more from you
Well a warm welcome to Steemit @n-doorplants!
Oh man. This one is really beautiful. Those purples really make it glow, and I love your expressive line work! So awesome to find more artists on here!
Thank you so much!
Really love the vibrant color of these, looks like the one in the back of my mothers yard
Wonderful, i connect plants to places too.
Hydrangeas are my favorite as well- you have captured them beautifully!!!!
Well I'm glad you enjoyed my work, thank you!
Love it! Is kind of relaxing. Your work is splendid! I'm happy of following you. Thanks for sharing.
I've had people say my work is tranquil or relaxing, that's very nice to hear. Thank you @iaso!!
I have to agree with many here. From the 4th pic from the bottom to the second they just jump off the medium. Fantastic! Beautiful
Great- glad you liked them!
is that gouache over watercolor? it looks great! i like the energy.
Thanks @drawingablank, it water-based pigment paint.
Masterclass as always, bravo!
Haha, pleasure to share that class with you!
Thanks @opheliafu the maestro
I like it High creative people ^^Cool art from you @opheliafu
Thank you @barvon :D
You are welcome ^_^Ok @opheliafu
Oh. That one actually.. has some unusual colors!
That one is amazing! Love it!
You can see the progression from my previous hydrangea painting, yes.
Yep, nailed it :D
That white pen over the purples and blues is amazing
Thanks, it's a more gentle technique for outlining than black pen
Wow, that's a great technique! May I ask - the whites on the pictures 3 and 4 are also watercolor or a liner?
They are white pen - it absorbs slightly into the watercolour but allows me to draw over the watercolour when it is dry.
That's a lovely painting, and I really like how you show the process AND the original version in nature that served as inspiration.
Thank you for that feedback on the format of the post, I will try to continue to do this. :D
stunning. I love the fine line details. Very nice!
Excellent, thank you!
Beautiful work ! Keep up the good work.
Thank you very much @spirits
This picture is beautiful!
Hello @warriorlion! Thank you, I'm glad you like this piece as well :D
This is so beautiful. I hope I learn a lot from following your page :)
All good things hope!! ;D
Beautiful. I want to use white pen in my watercolors now.
Give it a go, if you get water-based one it will soak into the colour gently, an acrylic one will sit more on the surface and is good for highlights- though I haven't used an acrylic one.
What you used made nice enough highlights.
@opheliafu very nice work again love it
Glad you do, thank you!!
great artwork, upvoted
Awesome, thank you :D
Wow, so amazing to see it from the beginning.
I think it's fun to see how this kind of work evolves. :D
I wish I could paint, it always really interested me. I even thought I was getting pretty good at it at one point, but when I stopped doing it regularly it seemed like I went back to being terrible lol. I think that for me the little artistic gift that I have comes out in food more, since I love to eat. #fatkidproblems ;P
Great colours
Thank you @mindboggle
very nice
Thank you!
hello @opheliafu i am new in steemit and i am from gilgit baltistan like you i post the photography of my village to bring some vots and to upgrade my account would you please resteem my posts please. i shall be thankfull to you ,, i have resteemd some post you dont need to resteem those one,, resteem those post which are mine please
thank you for sharing
Thank you @enomujjass
To see your artworks it's always a pleasure for me! As a bit of fresh air in the hot day!
Thanks for laying out your process. I love to paint but I have only just started watercolors with any kind of accuracy. I will be following your feed for sure!