Yesterday was the birthday of Georgia O'Keefe. An image of one of her paintings of giant red poppies was posted with information about her art and her life on Facebook.
I love poppies, but I have always been too intimidated by the intensity of color and the detail to try to paint one. However, I have a file filled with poppy pictures I've taken, and one favorite that I keep on my walls to enjoy every day. So, in honor of one a great artist, I was inspired to give this a try.
I drew with color pencil on vellum, and then brought it into Photoshop and saturated the image so that the colors and the details popped beyond what I saw on the page. I love the results! I hope you do too.
What a pretty poppy!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful poppy! You captured both the brilliant color and the delicacy of the blossom. Poppies are one of my favorite flowers. I planted some this past summer and I'm hoping for a good show next spring!
ReplyDeletegorgeous!! i love how the color pops!
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