Valentine Tulips
Spring Tulips - 5.5″ x 9.25″ - original watercolor
My dear husband surprised me with a beautiful pot of tulips for Valentine’s Day. Now that he is participating so much with me in my art activities, he has developed an quite an eye for things I would like to paint. I have always loved tulips, and carried them in my wedding bouquet, but being able to paint them just doubles the enjoyment.
OK, a few art notes about this. After I painted it I realized that it is really a painting made up of just one color and its complement - magenta and yellow green. The gray for the background is something I’ve heard described as “palette gray” - you mix together the various bits of red, maroon, dark green and yellow green and it produces a soft neutral that works well with the bright colors.
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Breathtaking!
That’s stunning Karen. I love how you put that one tulip into focus. Great!
Your love for tulips certainly shows in this beautiful painting.
great job, karen! absolutely love the focal point on the tall tulip and the slightly blurry look on the rest. the colors work together wonderfully and truly make the flowers pop!
Beautifully done. I do love tulips. The grey background supports those pinks so nicely!
Wow, just gorgeous. I just love tulips. This is a gorgeous painting.
Beautiful! Great tulips — nice deep dark pink in the shadows. I love the palette grey — always the best way to do grey in my opinion!
I like this one a lot!