Cosmos Flowers --- balance and harmony! (Poster Paint)

In order to calm myself down from the stress of not being able to work, I decided to paint something light today. I'm not familiar with floriography (flower language), but I think it's kind of interesting to know.

Flowers are pretty, and they're among the most interesting subjects to paint, so I decided to paint one. I've drawn or painted some flowers in the past... but mostly roses, tulips or hibiscus. This time, I chose the cosmos flowers. I like how they vary in color that sometimes, their petals are even with some designs.

This is what I came up with...




I chose red, pink with lavender colors for this artwork. Also, I used poster paint on a 10 x 10 cm watercolor paper.

Now, let's go through the art process, starting with the preparation and pencil sketch. :)

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After my draft, I brushed the whole paper with water, so it's easier to spread the paint.

For the background, I wanted it to be the sky. That's why I just painted it sky blue. I also added some streaks of white here and there, but I didn't really form clouds. After the background, I proceeded to coloring the center of the flower using two shades of yellow for the pollen and a couple of shades of green for the stem.

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Next was I colored the petals with the base color I mentioned earlier, which were red and pink. The lavender would be for the detailing later on, especially on the pink petals.

After adding some details on the petals of the flowers, I added the usual stuff, my username, signature and the date today using a blue gel pen.

Lastly, I removed the masking tape over the painting and took a bunch of photos from different angles. hahaha

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And that's it for my painting today. It's simple, but relaxing to look at... don't you think so? Painting is indeed a great way to take one's mind off things. I hope you enjoyed this post as much as I enjoyed making it.

See you around and have a good one! (^^,)/