Calla Lily
by Georgia O'Keefe
A calla lily is a broad bleached decorative flower that is the pride and alleviation of many a florist, photographer or painter. Georgia O'Keeffe rendered the good-looking, fair flower conscientious approximately too as anybody. Delineation this bulky, glorious flower is a greater confrontation for any painter, nevertheless it can successfully be accomplished by most artists, whether they access the business in a logical course. When you assemble a depiciton of a calla lily, you Testament grasp a parcel approximately using the colour gray.
Instructions
1. Compose a delineation of the lily. Greater all the more, brew various drawings of the lily, through you might not be Pleased with the elementary one. When you get a drawing that you like, then you are ready to begin the painting. Be sure and sketch the flower as many times as it is necessary until drawing the flower becomes second nature.
2. Choose a piece of paper for your final effort, and make a light sketch of the flower that takes up the whole page.
3. Lightly erase any line that you feel is too heavy. This is especially important when you work with a white-colored subject matter. All lines should be just barely visible.
4. Paint the highlight of your flower with an opaque shade of white. Pure white should almost never be used, as even a white subject will some have tint of color to it. Study your flower closely to see what colors are reflected onto the white surface. Also, you might find that the actual highlight is smaller than you first realized.
5. No matter how you Stare at it, you will need a color that accents the main subject.8. Fill any spaces in the foreground with an appropriate color.
6. Complete the floral parts. This includes the stem, the bright yellow pistil and any leaves that you might want to include.
7. Fill in the background. You might want to use a dark color for this, but that is just a suggestion. Paint the shadow areas of the flower. At this juncture, the color that you use becomes critical. Usually, in the shadow area, blues are dominant, but study your subject closely, for it is very possible that other colors are present.
Don't forget that, in painting, "appropriate" is a very relative term.
