Demonstration Of Red Onions And Flowers - How to Paint Step by Step

January 11, 2019

Demonstration of Red Onions and Flowers – how to paint step by step

First step to what I’ve done is established where I want the most important thing to go and the relative size of it. That way when I paint everything else and something happens to go off at least my center of interest is not affected.

I start to work in the background and I like to establish that first because it gives me a color reference for the rest of the painting.

Then you can see where I want the flowers to be and that I have taken the onion to a much higher degree of resolve, not finished but more resolved.

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Then, I’m starting to play around with the look and the feel of the foreground color. You can see that I brought in the onion skin to start to establish the table top. I basically save the flowers for last so that I can make whatever kind of adjustments to the composition that will best suit the movement of the painting.

Then in the final image of the painting I go back and rework the onion skin a little bit and establish the flowers and give them some intensity but not to compete with the onion any more than need to be. We do want tension but we don’t want to overplay it. It was fun painting.

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