Paintings!

Phew! Finally started working on these paintings. Finding the right dimension for these paintings has been a challenge. The dimension given could never be found in Art Friend, where I always get my boards. After spending quite awhile in Art Friend, i decided to try my luck at Creative Hands and to my surprise, thank god i managed to find the closest dimension and quickly bought them.

There are four country national flowers I will need to work on, the Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia National Flowers. Before accepting this job, I actually hesitated awhile, because painting flowers was never my strength. The lotus is a proof. Then I realised, I have been constraint by small boards and it is about planning, color mixing, and using the right brush. Then again, its a great opportunity for some free "publicity" and so why not? Opportunity dont knock on our door everday and when it does, it really depends on one if they know how to cherish and grab it. I am glad I did.

I did quite a few researches online, viewing youtube for painting techniques, going to botanical gardens to see more flowers, searching and going through many pictures through googles, yahoo search.

The current boards I am working on is on a dimension of roughly 90cm by 60cm. While I was working on the Orchid, then I was told that that Orchid suppose to be painted like a collage with three such sized boards instead of painting it on one board to complete the whole picture. Ah well! I can always repaint. So I worked on the Hibiscus now and the frangi pani, while waiting for the new boards to arrive before I could repaint the Orchid and the dun know what yellow beautiful flower for the Thailand painting.

Hope all efforts pay well.........

have to redo this onto three such board sizE~ (incomplete painting)

(Hibiscus, incomplete also)