Flowers inspired by Jenkins!

Back after a gap but hope to stay this time :)

Been painting flowers and who better to learn from than the great Gary Jenkins.
So I have done a couple of studies which I would like to share with you. Will try to tell you in few steps how i completed the paintings..

These are oil on canvas with acrylic being used for the back ground ( Got no patience to wait for the back ground to dry...:)

For the above painting I gave the background as below using a wash of Burnt Sienna. Used some sap green and yellow ochre as well. Its easy to just take your colour tube and put some colour directly from the tube ... you know a dot of burnt sienna where you want burnt sienna, a dot of sap green where you want sap green...and so on....
then blend it all ..wiping your brush in between so as not to get a muddy colour.

 

 The colours used in the above painting are Burnt Sienna, Titanium White,Sap Green, Cad Red, Cad Yellow, Lemon Yellow, Turquoise, Ultramarine Blue.

"Mixing Sap Green with Ultramarine Blue gives a nice deep green for making dark leaves"