"Animals, Birds & Butterflies" Free Painting Tutorial Playlist Update on YouTube!

We've recently updated our free "Animals, Birds & Butterflies Free Acrylic Painting Tutorials" Playlist on YouTube! You can also find more exclusive Animal themed painting tutorials on our Patreon. :) http://patreon.com/angelafineart

 

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"Large Flower Series" Free Painting Tutorials!

With spring in full swing, we wanted to share this playlist we've made of our free Large Flower Series of painting tutorials! Hope you enjoy. :) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXKApvc4qSPAI8I-iaXkeMkGDKTO9-Sig

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Floral Landscape Painting Tutorial - Submitted Artwork

This is one of my favorite tutorials from Youtube.  I released it in 2013 and since then have received photos from people all over the world who have tried it for themselves. Hope you enjoy seeing all the amazing artwork that came from this video.

I will also be pinning the submissions from this post to my Pinterest board: Online Student Artwork

If you have tried this project and want your artwork featured here please email your photo to: angelafineart@gmail.com or share to my facebook page: AngelaAndersonFineArt Thanks!

Amazon Music Sale

Two of my favorite albums are on sale for $3.99 today.  Thought I'd pass along the links.  
I used the song "Heaven on Fire" from the Radio Dept. for one of my YouTube videos (below).  Their music is very unique, kinda dreamy retro.  Bon Iver's front man Justin Vernon has one of the most unusual voices I've heard.  It almost seems high and off key but in a good way. His melodys are gorgeous.  Take a listen....

Kid's Summer 2011 Painting Class

Today was day 2 of my summer painting class for kids.  The girls have been doing such a good job that I thought I would share some of their paintings.  The first day we did a gerber daisy and today we did a simple landscape.

Summer Painting Lessons

I am taking registration for my new summer painting class.  All levels of experience welcome.  Please contact me to register.  Class size is limited.

New Butterfly Paintings on Etsy

I just added two new mini canvases to my Etsy shop.   Each original painting measures 4"x6".

"Up Seems So Down" Album Cover

I started working on a painting for an album cover today.  Robb McCormick (aka Some Guy Named Robb) is releasing a new album in December called "Up Seems So Down".   I'm really excited about working on this.  The theme of the album is based on confusion.  The moon is mentioned in some of the lyrics so I wanted to use it on the cover.  The idea I had was to have the sun and moon swap positions in the sky.  Moon at dawn, sun at night.  Hopefully it will translate to canvas like I am picturing it!

New Painting Class

I will be teaching painting workshops during the week of July 12-16th.   We will be completing three paintings: a simple landscape with poppies (similar to above), a still life and a modern abstract. 

The adult class will be held from 7:30 - 9 pm, Monday - Friday, at Fellowship of Christians, Russellville, AR.

The kids class (for grades 3 and up) will be held from 1:00 - 2:30 pm Monday - Friday at Hobby Lobby in Russellville, AR.

Please contact me here or on my facebook page to reserve a spot.  I will take up to 10 students in each class.

Cost for the series is $50 plus supplies (approx. $50).

New Iris Paintings

I have a show coming up in June that I am trying to get some paintings ready for. I have been wanting to use some of the photos I took last April of my irises.  So I finally started on a pair of new 10" x 10" paintings today. Above is the first painting.  I am going to work on it some more tomorrow.  I am not totally happy with the dark purple areas.  I will probably work on the background also.  I don't know if the light green works with this iris' color.

 I worked on it a bit more.  The photo isn't great but you can see the added details a bit.  I brightened the edges and darkened the shadows a little also. I also washed a dark blue over the background.

I worked on the other canvas today.  I found a great photo of my favorite light blue iris.  I like the profile perspective.  It looks nice with the top view of the purple iris.    I am still going to work on the background colors of both to unify them.  Right now the purple one's background is darker because of the blue wash I did.  I am tempted to just go with a dark brown on both.  I love the contrast it gives, but I have done a lot of paintings with dark brown backgrounds and I think I want to experiment with something new.  The blue iris still needs some definition but it's mostly done.

 Well, I decided to go light blue on the background of the pink iris.  I ordered more canvases of this size and will be doing at least two more for this series.  I will most likely sell them together as a set.  I like the look of these two so far.  I think I will probably do a yellow iris with a pink background and a white or purple/lavender iris with a yellow background.  It should make for a nice set hopefully.

UPDATE:  I got the canvases in this week!  I am 99% finished with the paintings.  I will set them up in my living room and look at them for a few days to be sure there isn't anything else I want to change.  I find that if I "live" with a painting for a few days I can usually pinpoint any changes I want to make.   I really like the way these are turning out. 

UPDATE:  I did make some new changes. I wanted to bring out some deeper color in the blue iris.  I also lightened the purple/pink iris and added some highlights to the lavender iris.  The yellow iris got the most new work done.  I added a lot more detail to the upper petals portion.  I think I'm really finished this time.