STARGAZER LILY

My Monday morning class expressed an interest in painting a Stargazer Lily. I have only painted one lily, that I can think of, so this was a new experience for me.

I decided that it was time for them to try a different support, and I chose hot press paper. This is a difficult surface to work on, and I figured that we would probably get some water blossoms, but that shouldn’t matter too much since we were painting a flower.

The progression of my demo painting follows.

I began with the stamens (??) pistols (?) (I never can remember what the middle parts are called!)

Next, I tried to capture the photo colors of the flower. I painted every other petal – so that the wet colors would not touch and run into one another.