Fancy Florals

I just spent the week studying with #LauraOliver.  Because I felt inspired by her Florals.   As though I haven't already shown you countless florals that I already painted here.

During a workshop, I created the following Floral on my own arm:



Here is a closeup of it:



Then #Laura #Oliver was saying that we could add even more stuff ~ like dark swirls. dots, and starbursts.  Even though I felt pleased with my painting, I stuck on some of that stuff.  Still looks good, but I feel like I liked this particular painting better Without those additions.  In general:



But you can see by this closeup that Some spots looked better With those additions:



So I'm finding my way.  I figure that if I paint these enough, I will have a good feel for when to stop or when to add more.

The next day, I started right in on that.  When I get this down, it will make some of my Clients very happy.

Here  I approached my first face with what I learned from Laura.  I made a colored background with a Much Bigger Rose followed by Lots of extras (flowers, swirls, starbursts, glitter.......)



At the time,  I felt like it was too ungapotchka'd.  Until I saw the photos of the 3 attempts I had tried.  Then, after painting the following two faces, I decided that I would like to continue developing Laura's flower style ~ to make it my own.  .

But for this day, what I had done was to simplify.  I made the following design with less of everything.  Still a Colored Background, still a Much Bigger Rose than I would have usually made, still a lot of extras......   but less of them.



Until I saw them in the photographs, I had been feeling like this was the way to go.  Even Simpler.  So I made the following design.  Just a swipe of Color with the Larger Roses, a few petal dots and curly lines, and done.  (Note:  This model already had something painted on her mouth before I added my flowers.  I didn't paint that part on her mouth.  We were all practicing.)



Now that I see the photographs of my studies, it's clear that I just have to embrace the details.  Get comfortable with them.  I'm looking forward to designing some real glamorous designs this way.

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