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Torch Ginger - Getting Reacquainted

by Marcia Minnichhofer on 01/10/16

Have applied a few more glazes of color to darken existing petals before I move on to finishing the rest of the flower. I had to darken pencil sketch lines where they had faded over the three or four years since I last worked on this. Discovered that I had flipped the original photograph so that the flower would tilt inward instead of outward. Had to figure out what colors I had used back then as well. This painting will be done with a limited palette of pink, purple, and yellow (to make orange). The torch ginger here on the island is pink or a dark red-orange. Mine will be somewhere in between and less realistic in color. I may add a little green later in the background but like the softness around the flower so it would be just an impression of leave(s) if I decide to have any.  Won't know until the flower is done. I see a bit of a watermark on a petal on the middle left so will have to fix that. That happens when you add paint in an area that has started to dry. It is not wet enough to blend the new layer of color in and it is not dry enough to add another layer without disturbing the one under it. 


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