Forsythia Study 4 Watercolor
by Conni Schaftenaar
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Title
Forsythia Study 4 Watercolor
Artist
Conni Schaftenaar
Medium
Painting - Watercolor On Paper
Description
Forsythia in bloom, watercolor on paper, by Conni Schaftenaar.
Forsythia has been a favorite of mine ever since I once had a small house with three forsythia shrubs. Each spring when they bloomed, I would arrive home from work in the early evening, sun still out but sky just beginning to darken. The yellow of the blossoms seemed to simply GLOW out of the darker background.
This is my fourth attempt to capture the glow of those amazing yellow flowers against a purpling sky. I poured the background after sketching and masking the forsythia shrub - Pthalo Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Aureolin Yellow, Dioxazene Violet in the background. After removing masking, I used Aureolin and a touch of Gamboge to create the blossoms.
3rd place tie in the Traditional Artists' group April 2022 Special Features contest
Featured in:
Beauty in Art, May 2018
Created by My Hands, May 2018
Images That Excite You, May 2018
Midwest American Artists, May 2018
Imagination-Artistry-Creativity, June 2018
Exclusively Drawings & Paintings, June 2018
Print Me, Honourable Mention ~ in the "Portraits of Yellow-Petalled Garden Flowers" contest, March 2019
1000 Views on One Image, March 2020
The ARTIST BUZzz, March 2022
Four Seasons, April 2022
The Artists Group, April 2022
Yahoo Doodles Fine Art, April 2022
Fabulous Florals for Everyone, April 2022
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May 25th, 2018
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Comments (48)
Jenny Revitz Soper
BRAVO! Your artwork has earned a FEATURE on the homepage of The Artists Group, 4/10/2022! You may also post it in the Group's Features discussion thread and any other thread that fits!
Conni Schaftenaar
Thanks, Hanne Lore and Sarah, and thanks to all who voted this to a 3rd place tie in the Traditional Artists' Group April 2022 Special Feature contest!
Sarah Irland
Congratulations, Conni, on your Win in the April 2022 Homepage Feature in the Traditional Artists Group for this beautiful painting! Well deserved. Voted.
Hanne Lore Koehler
Congratulations on your HOMEPAGE FEATURE contest win for TRADITIONAL ARTISTS group with this beautiful forsythia painting, Conni! L/F
Conni Schaftenaar
Thanks so much, Lois, Hiroko, Shiva, and Laurel! Yes, Lois, unpruned forsythia are simply glorious, just the way I love them!
Lois Bryan
So so so pretty, Connie ... I love forsythia!!!!!!! And i love your painting ... they're not clipped and pruned but are waving happily in the April breezes!!!!! f t
Laurel Adams
CONGRATULATIONS! Your work has been featured in the Home Page of The ARTIST BUZzz Group! You are cordially invited to POST image embed links for this distinction to the 🌟GAs -Features Archive -2022 thread in the discussion tab. Thank you for your glimpse of beauty!
Laurel Adams
Thank you so much Conni for sharing your views on “Hue, Value and Saturation” in the contest blog. ...v...best to you
Conni Schaftenaar
Thanks so much, Laurel, both for your comments and support AND for this fabulous series of contests!
Laurel Adams
Dear Conni, your entries each address the importance of the contest theme triad. I love the deeper dive and apparently many fellow artists are also beginning to enjoy the BUZzzz..:-)...your watercolour and mixed media paintings are SO influenced by your innate understanding of this relationship. ...THANK YOU for both gracing this contest with your entries and your thoughts on the contest theme triad...which offer a perfect segue into next weeks theme...DESIGN and COMPOSITION...:-)
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