Studio Practice (Foxglove Painting)

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These are my work in process photos of painting the foxglove. I started this process later then i wanted too and it also tock me a lot longer, my plant was to spend Monday on this painting, Tuesday on the next one and Thursday on the last one however i ended up working on this one painting all week - this meant i was unable to fully create what i wanted too as i had a lot left time to make the other two paintings. I believe this is because i spent more time to make it realistic, doing it one section of the plant at a time what tock a while to do, this is not how i normally paint so i was not aware this would take so long. I wanted to use this project as a small experiment on getting back into painting, over the process of making this one i relised while i really like how it came out, i did not enjoy this process due to the time - in the future i would want to slowly work on it over a month, while doing more lose paintings during the gap.
I did not end up adding the second layer (oil pastels) as i did not want to risk ruining the paintings, I felt that the larger flower was finished however the close ups are a little more flat. They all missing the small brown dots that are in the inside of the flowers, however i did not want to paint these in and did not have the right browns, i felt the brown made it look dirty and i did not want this look on the painting.
I feel like this painting works well for the concept of not trusting things for how they look, it being the 'most' beautiful painting of the 3 works as well as it is the most deadly.
If i had more time i would have liked to do a photo copy scan of it and do some small experiments on adding the yellow/purple and other things i could add to it, this would have been good to just see and might have found something to make the painting stronger, as it is due in 2ish weeks (at time of finishing the painting), i did not want to risk doing something i did not like.



This is one of the larger ones, it does not have a lot of depth compare to the long plant - his is the same for the other 3 close ups - this might have been due to it being larger















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