This painting was exciting to do. I tried several new techniques in achieving the final results. First was cropping of the original photo to a close up view of the flowers and eliminating unwanted clutter. Then while in the photo shop program I started playing with the picture to see what it might look like with the various effects that were offered. I started out using the watercolor effect to see what it could look like once painted then moved onto another effect that gave it the pen & ink look. Unfortunately I can't remember which effect I used for the second step and should have written it down at the time. I rather liked the look and decided I would attempt to paint it that way. I made a print of those results and began from there.
Original Photo
Cropped and Altered Photos
Watercolor Effect
After painting the photo to look like the watercolor effect photo I then moved onto the Pen & Ink effect to finish the painting.
Pen & Ink Effect
Working the Pen & Ink was the most time consuming part of this painting due to using a small tipped ink pen and achieving the effect with dots and scribbles. Strange as it may seem this is the most relaxing part for me and I didn't mind doing it at all but was somewhat excited to come to an end and call it finished.
Zinnias
Watercolor
11"X15"
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