Fearless Friday, Garden Gloves
I am continually inspired by my Monday Morning Bloom friends,
I always want to paint their beautiful floral creations
When I saw Mary’s beautiful vignette with vintage blue dishes,
white flowers, and garden gloves,
I couldn’t wait to paint it!
You can see Mary’s lovely post here
I started by sketching the objects with a blue watercolor pencil
It is hard to see, the sketch was very light
If you do your sketch with a watercolor pencil instead of pencil,
you won’t have to worry about those pesky lines later
Next I mixed some watercolor washes,
sepia, indigo, light emerald, turquoise,
leaf green, lemon, and new gamboge in the center
I started with light washes to establish the composition
Next came more color and some darks
As you can begin to see, I simplified what was going on above the gloves
because I wanted them to be the main focus
I slowly built the painting with layers of darker colors
I decided to paint the area under the shelf burnt sienna,
to add contrast and to make the items on the shelf stand out
I kept the flower shapes very simple,
leaving just an impression of flowers
Then I darkened the shadows
and loosely added the blue pattern on the gloves and china pieces
I finished with a .01 black fine liner
“Garden Gloves” 9″ x 12″ watercolor and ink on 140 lb cold pressed watercolor paper
Thank you Mary for your beautiful inspiration photo!
By the way,
yesterday Mary and I and over 20 other creative bloggers
shared recent creations on a Creative Craft Blog Hop
You can find all the links here
There are tons of ideas for all skill levels!
Be Fearless!
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I will be joining these fabulous parties and blogs:
Meal Plan Monday Love Your Creativity What’s for Dinner?
Between Naps on the Porch, Make it Pretty Monday
Turn About Tuesday Celebrate Your Story, You’re the Star
All About Home/ Common Ground Follow the Yellow Brick Home
Tasty Tuesday Oh My Heartsie Girl Full Plate Thursday
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Jenna, I’m so honored you were inspired by my photo to do a watercolor rendering of it …so beautiful! I always enjoy seeing your artistic process at work. Happy Friday!! ♥
Thank you Mary, your photos always make want to run to my easel!
So very cool, Jenna. Mary’s potting shed display was gorgeous. You did a great job. It’s fascinating for me to watch your process and use of color. Have a great weekend.
Thank you Rita 🙂
Jenna, the watercolor of Mary’s photo is absolutely beautiful. Your process is always so interesting. I really like how the gloves became the focal point. Your talent always amazes me!
thank you so much Pam! You ladies always have such beautiful photos to paint from!
The Monday Morning Bloom Girls are really an inspiration and so are you!
I enjoyed each detail of your tutorial. What a beautiful creation of Mary’s Garden Shed Shelf! Happy Weekend, Jenna!
Thank you Nancy, I am a flower lover, but not a gardener, so I have to “do” my gardening through others 🙂
Those gloves in Mary’s photo caught my eye, too! Something about the way she has placed them looks so charming.
Exactly! I told her it looked like we just missed her in the photo as she took off her gloves to do something else 🙂
This is beautiful, Jenna. You captured the photo perfectly — and what a lovely subject. I especially love the gardening gloves. Thanks for stepping out your process. That’s always my favorite part!
You’re welcome Jeanie, this was a different type of subject for me, more complicated than usual, but I am trying to branch out and do more complicated scenes!
This painting is gorgeous Jenna. I love it and you did a great job! Have a happy Friday and weekend.
Thanks Julie, happy sketching!
Oh, Jenna! This is PERFECT! You totally captured her sweet little shed! I too, love the gloves, they look so real, like her hands just left them. I hope you make this into a pillow, coasters or a tote! How fun would that be to have your artwork, but a picture of Mary’s shed! Awesome! 😉
Oh, okay, I hadn’t thought about that, I will add it to my shop, thanks Cyndi!
Absolutely beautiful! I know Mary was very flattered that you painted her vignette. Very pretty!
Thank you Bonnie!
Jenna, such a lovely rendering of Mary’s blue and white post. So much fun watching you capture it step by step. Have a fun beachy weekend………..
thank you Emily, her photos are always so pretty!
A lovely painting, Jenna!!
Thanks Patty Anne 🙂
This is gorgeous! I absolutely love the colors together. To have the vision after seeing the photo is an amazing talent!!
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Thanks so much Pamela!
Jenna, you are very talented! Super photo, continue to delight us further!
Thanks so much!
Jenna, you are one of the most talented people I know. Your paintings are so full of life and color. I’m sure Mary was so honored. Can I be next!!
Aren’t you sweet! Thanks Carol!
That is so beautiful, Jenna. Thanks for the great tutorial — I have been wanting to do some watercolor, but I have been a little intimidated as it’s been a long time. I’ve featured this today at the TFT link party – thanks for sharing it!
Thank you so much Pam! I hope you get back into watercolor, I used to be intimidated by it too, but doing these daily challenges has been so much fun and watercolor is quickly becoming my favorite medium!