Artist Reply: Thank you Roisin so much! I love painting florals, tulips are ones I love due to the variety of colors and petal forms. I am planning a large garden at the new house we are about to close escrow on and can't wait to get started. I with find it full of inspiration and a joy to be in.

Artist Reply: Thanks Cynthia! This one was one that worked so well with the brushes and watercolor blends I used. SOmetimes I manage to pop out a really lovely floral with fine details, I really need to work on more florals. Glad you liked this one. I'm testing out a trail version of Painter X at the moment. So far, loving it, will update mine to it I think.

Artist Reply: Thanks Jerry! This one was a lighter soft floral, with the darker background for dramatic effect. I love this one, as it came out as I intended it would exactly.

Artist Reply: Thank you Arnel! I will be doing more florals when I can this summer to make a series. These are worth the effect to do them, so just need to hunt up some flowers to work on. Will be taking photos on vacation to use for reference.

Artist Reply: Thanks Tazda! The photo of this flower was nice, but crudey background of my microwave & kitchen window. It's the same flower I photoed the photo of that had the light behind it. I painted this a littler and pinker hue than the original flowers. I also left out flawed areas such as some yellowing discoloration that the eal flower had. This one is a painting, so I can make it more perfect than a photo of the real plant.

Artist Reply: Thank you Thea! I love using purple and got lucky the tulips given to me were!

Artist Reply: Thank you Matt!

Artist Reply: Thank you Joseph! Some of my portraits get mistaken as well. I try to make the realistic look often and so if the work is viewed in a larger print, it still looks great, no digital messy pixes noise. I think thats the key to the work. I enlarge and scroll over the whole section to look for trouble areas and recheck. Portraits and florals come out well this wasy, lots of blending of mediums to soften, yet can still be vivid in color and details.

Artist Reply: Thank you Chris! I went around my house to find the riht lighting. I was by my kitchen window and microwave when i saw the lighting I was after. That is the hardest part for me, figuring out the lighting.

Artist Reply: Thank you Armando! I blended the mediums a long time to get the soft look, then go back to add in detail lines, and soften them a bit as well.

Artist Reply: Thank you Debbie! I am so used to working with the pieces enlarged in areas as I scroll in sections, I forget to post zooms. You can see in a zoom it's a painting, not a photos. I try to mimic as best I can a realistic look, and sometimes get a good results. I'm still learning and practicing. THe more I do, the easier it gets, unless I have a flare up with my hands (arthritis & carpal tunnel syndrome). I love the Wacom talbet because it's easier to hold the stylus pen than a brush or pencil, less stress on my hands. I would not be able to do this net or exacting work I do know often otherwise. I know what I what to do, but my hands do not listen so well. I spend most of the time blending sections to get rid of the noise/speckles/pixel mess you can have in a digital work. I hate that to be seen, so learned to blend my strokes and mediums. I was lucky that I figured out how to get the effect and am improving now. Thank you for your lovely comments.

Artist Reply: Thank you Timothy!

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Artist Reply: Thank you Corry! Just wish I had a field of them to view. Will wor on having one one day in the future.

Artist Reply: Thank you Emily! I really missed having tulips like my father & I planted in the garden we had growing up. He loved tulips.

Artist Reply: Thank you Kwabena! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Artist Reply: Thanks! It's a painting though. The real flowers are so much prettier. I'll put a close up shot i the zoom in a few minutes. The viewing thumbnail does make it look more phot than painting.

Artist Reply: Thank you Alex! Still learning, but happy with this one.

Artist Reply: Thank you Lorenda! I have troble sometimes figuring out lighting so walked around my house with the tulips until I found a spot that gave the lighting I was thinking of. The reference photo helps me remeber the lighting and details way fter the flowers have died off. I wanted to remember what they looked like and happy I did a nice painting of it.

Artist Reply: Thank you Linda! It was about time I got around to painting another detailed flora. I'm glad you like it! I took a great photo that I almost posted, but knew I wanted to paint it more. Petals are easier than hair in the portraits. I'm taking phots for more florals I will be working on all summer to finish painting.