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Hello Cinnamon, John, and Everyone!
Cinnamon, you have been asking for requests on subjects and techniques to address. I have one for you that has been giving me fits.
That is a link to an image I photographed myself of a sunflower that grew rogue in my backyard a few years ago. I love the image and have attempted to paint it several times in acrylics, but I just can't make the paint do what I want.
(I'm primarily a colored pencil or oil pastel artist who has a love/hate relationship with all the 'wet' media, but feel this image would be gorgeous in acrylics if only I could do it.)
I give permission for anyone and everyone to use this image to make any kind of art for any purposes.
My extreme problems with painting this image (and similar ones of yellow flowers) is capturing the blends of the muted orange to warm yellow, but more frustrating is putting in the shadows, even after knowing the exact colors of the browns and green-gold for them using the eyedropper tool in photoshop to make patches off to the side. I either muddy the yellow too much and/or the streaks of shadows in the those creases are too bold with stark lines rather than blended edges.
I look forward to seeing other renditions and I hope you'll do this image or something similar in a tutorial.
Thanks,
Mary.
ps - if link doesn't work, let me know.
