Sunflowers in a Red Vase

Description

Acrylic on Canvas, 16 x 20 inches. This is my second painting of Sunflowers in Marion Dutton’s ArtTutor online course. This course focused on wet on wet with acrylics to create this still life. First layer was painting directly on a wet layer of white gesso. Blue and yellow were used directly on the gesso to create a background of of blue, yellow and green. Gel medium and retarder were mixed and used for wet on wet painting.

The vase was drawn using a template, and then flowers and leaves were added before painting. Here is the finished drawing.