Paint Party Fridays - Aerial View

 I did an aerial view of a flower arrangement I have at home and used a striped background. It's a greeting card (4 1/4"h x 5 1/2"w) done in acrylic.  The arrangement itself is outlined with a fine point marker.

I had trouble with the striped background, the first set of colours I used seemed to detract from the
flowers.  I ended up changing to very muted shades and then it worked.  Acrylic paint is very forgiving, you can just paint over your mistakes.  The hard part is finding out what works!

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Paint Party Fridays - Water Lilies

It's Paint Party Friday again!

I drew some water lilies this week. The hardest part for me was the dark water background. I first tried Indigo blue, but it wasn't dark enough, so I ended up putting a layer of black on top of it, and then it seemed vivid enough. Oops, I just noticed a spot in the middle that was left indigo, can you see it? I'm always doing things like that.

Please stop by the other lovely participants to see what they have been working on.