During the past holiday weeks I decided to start working on some botanical sketches of leaves, just to start looking into the never-ending shades of greens and how to achieve them. I'm finding it very daunting yet fascinating. During the last year or so I started studying colours very thoroughly and in doing so I took out all the colours of my palette that didn't have the features I needed to achieve my goals. I ended up using a rather limited choice of favourite pigments which has been able to provide me with any colour I needed so far. I like keeping it simple to get the best and most varied mixes out of them. It worked, until I started mixing to match those greens... Any thought from the botanical artists reading this will be much appreciated.
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I really need to improve my painting techniques. I've been working through the local evergreens, but I just can't get the texture right (as well as the colour). Beautiful sketches!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful Matteo, your leaves are so realistic!!!
ReplyDeleteI can't see the originals but it seems you're on the right path, they're very delicate and realistic.
ReplyDeleteThese are beautiful. Frame and sell!
ReplyDeleteDelicate. Ephemeral. Lovely. I love seeing the strokes of color that went into the leaves alongside.
ReplyDeleteMatteo! These are just gorgeous, the greens are stunning. That's a challenging color, it's good to see how you achieved it.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much everybody for the encouragement!
ReplyDeleteI love all the imperfections Matteo. I think there are more varieties of green than of any other color. You could spend a lifetime mixing them. Enjoy the process!
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