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Lulu Segel posted 2 images 9 months, 1 week agoI’m in a struggle with purple. I’ve got this clematis that’s purple, and the petals look velvety.
I had a grand time Plein air, but it drapes my mailbox. I didn’t put that in.
But rendering the reality of all that purple is not easy. I did one sepal. I was determined not to use dioxazine because it tends to flatten things. But, I started with many colors, layering over and over. End result was not good. So I dove into the dioxazine. It’s a lot darker than I would like, but it certainly gave the velvet feel of the sepal. Clematis “petals” are not, they are sepals. 🤩
So I’ve got one huge sepal I putzed with drying 8 times. And my Plein air that was fast. I’m happier with the Plein air.
So this sepal, what would you do? Too much blue and it kills it. Too much pink and it goes mauve. Although it should have pink/mauve undertones. I had my heart set on one big flower from the whole plant, but probably not. I’m plum 😂 tuckered out with purples. Any suggestions, much appreciated! 4CF263D3-359D-44DC-A81D-477B31BE04393CBBAA45-DE2F-412D-ABC9-63A38A33BB8BLulu Segel posted an updateI’m in a struggle with purple. I’ve got this clematis that’s purple, and the petals look velvety. I had a grand time Plein air, but it drapes my mailbox. I didn’t put that in. But rendering the reality of all that purple is not easy. I did one sepal. I was determined not to use dioxazine because it tends to flatten things. But, I started with many colors, layering over and over. End result was not good. So I dove into the dioxazine. It’s a lot darker than I would like, but it certainly gave the velvet feel of the sepal. Clematis “petals” are not, they are sepals. 🤩 So I’ve got one huge sepal I putzed with drying 8 times. And my Plein air that was fast. I’m happier with the Plein air. So this sepal, what would you do? Too much blue and it kills it. Too much pink and it goes mauve. Although it should have pink/mauve undertones. I had my heart set on one big flower from the whole plant, but probably not. I’m plum 😂 tuckered out with purples. Any suggestions, much appreciated! 4CF263D3-359D-44DC-A81D-477B31BE04393CBBAA45-DE2F-412D-ABC9-63A38A33BB8B
Lulu Segel posted an updateI’m in a struggle with purple. I’ve got this clematis that’s purple, and the petals look velvety. I had a grand time Plein air, but it drapes my mailbox. I didn’t put that in. But rendering the reality of all that purple is not easy. I did one sepal. I was determined not to use dioxazine because it tends to flatten things. But, I started with many colors, layering over and over. End result was not good. So I dove into the dioxazine. It’s a lot darker than I would like, but it certainly gave the velvet feel of the sepal. Clematis “petals” are not, they are sepals. 🤩 So I’ve got one huge sepal I putzed with drying 8 times. And my Plein air that was fast. I’m happier with the Plein air. So this sepal, what would you do? Too much blue and it kills it. Too much pink and it goes mauve. Although it should have pink/mauve undertones. I had my heart set on one big flower from the whole plant, but probably not. I’m plum 😂 tuckered out with purples. Any suggestions, much appreciated! 4CF263D3-359D-44DC-A81D-477B31BE04393CBBAA45-DE2F-412D-ABC9-63A38A33BB8B
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Lovely painting, Lulu. I like the labeled picture of the sepal.
Thank you Gary! It argued with me. 😁
Beautifully rendered!!
Thank you Varsha.
I think your paintings are beautiful.
Thank you Victoria. You’re sweet. 💖
Beautiful
Thank you Brenda.
There are two ways I might handle this myself, depending on the paper and how staining the paint is. One is to take a damp brush, set it where I wanted the paint to be lighter, for a few seconds, and then blot with a kleenex. Some of the color should lift. I would repeat until I had something closer to what I wanted. The second method probably wouldn’t fit in with the rest of your painting because it gives such a different look. I’d use a thick mix of Lavender or Cerulean Blue (opaque colors mixed to about the consistency of milk) and use it for highlights. You can see what I mean in my tutorial on Painting a Tulip in Gouache. It works for watercolor too, as long as you use thicker paint over thin.
Sandra, thank you, thank you! 🙌💖
I am checking your tutorial out.
The staining was another reason I was so trying to avoid dioxazine. It touches the paper and it’s not going anywhere. I find some staining pigments can still be lifted, but not the dioxazine in my experience.