Tag: poppies

Watercolour florals

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of creating my best friends wedding table names, and thank you cards.

I created a series of water colour paintings to print on to cream card. I was so worried that I wouldn’t do the flowers justice, but I think in the end the turned out beautifully. What do you all think?

  • Tulips – severely underrated, they colours they come in are immense. They are bright and intricate int he middle. Simply stunning. Roses – the most romantic of all flowers I think and this orange and pink one is no exception.
  • My favourited flower painting is probably the poppy, it turned out so well. They way the colours blend together is just stunning. Lily – this one is my favourite flower in real life, I love how this one turned out so much that I’m in the middle of doing an orange one as well.Daisies – such a simple flower in real life but very tricky to make stand out from white paper! Daffodils – I love the bright yellow colour. This was my best friends Nans favourite flower. Bluebells – simply stunning little flowers and such a short window of bloom.

    • I really enjoyed designing these florals, and I’m very proud of how they turned out. I will be using water colours a lot more I think. They are definitely easier to clean up and set up.

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    Cheers,

    Chrissy xx

    Floral paintings

    I’ve really been getting into the floral paintings over the last few months. I have done some water colours that I’ll show you next week. I’ve also done several sketches for my colouring book.

    To check out more of my work go to my Facebook or Instagram feeds to see some work in process pics.

    Here are some of my recent acrylics paintings on canvas board.

    I really love sun flowers and so does my step mum. I painted these for her when she came over to the uk earlier this year.

    Poppies are just beautiful and stunningly bright! These ones are already sold.

    Lilies are my favourite flowers and I absolutely love this little one. The most realistic I’ve managed to paint so far.

    And the last of my acrylic flowers for now, my yellow roses. I will have to revisit these ones as I’m not 100% happy with them.

    Thanks for looking at my work,

    Chrissy xx

    Day 10 – 30 Days of Art

    Flowers! My favourite flowers in the whole world are lilies! I love the different colours. So I thought I might draw a few different types of flowers. I obviously need to work on shading but I like the general shape of them all. While researching flowers I was so surprised at the amount of different kinds of orchids there are,and the different colours they come in! WOW!!

    Below, is the start of a portrait I’m doing of my monkeys. It’s my ‘take my time’ piece that I hope to finish. If you’ve been reading my posts then you know faces elude me. So I think this will be a great help for me to improve my skills. I think it’s really important to tackle the things you find the hardest head on. There is no point sticking your head in the sand!

    To keep up to date with all my art and other things like my triathlon training, follow me on instagram at www.instagram.com/chrissyturley30. If you would like to see what pieces I have on sale in my etsy store click the link – https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ChrissyTurleyArtist

    Cheers,

    Chrissy xxx