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Creating the Painting "White Flowers on a Table"

"White Flowers on a Table" by Charles Kaufman 23.6 x 35.4 inches 60 x 90 cm Acrylic paints on canvas. For a few days I had been bouncing around ideas in my head about a few still life paintings with bouqets of flowers in them to create and experiment with. One of the ideas was to sketch a large bouqet of whitish-colored flowers in a face. I sketched out a couple of ideas (see one below) and then started working on the painting "White Flowers in a Vase".

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"White Flowers on a Table". Click on the graphics to see larger views.

Some notes on creating the painting: - I had no real color scheme thought out for the painting other than I knew I wanted the flowers to be whitish, beige, pink. - Initially, the flower vase was a lighter ocrhe coloring, but there was not enough contrast in

the painting so I made it darker, almost black. (Although I did not use any black paint.) - I used larger sized paint brushes on this painting than I normally would. Mostly size 16 paintbrushes & larger, whereas on other paintings the average brush size is more a 12. - Usually when I create a paintings I paint in the outlines first, then paint the rest. This time I painted the outlines in last and using only Raw Umbra paint color; maybe some Prussian Blue with it. - The background has only verticle brushstrokes in it and the table the flowers are sitting on only has horizontal brush strokes.

Two of the paintbrushes I used for most of the painting.

The initials sketch idea for the painting from my sketch book. Click to see a larger view of the sketch.

The paints used in the creation of the painting. From top, left - right: - Sky Blue Light - Prussian blue - Greyish Blue - Raw Umbra - Royal Blue - Brown Ochre - Napels Yellow - Venetian Rose - Sand - Flesh - Buff Titanium - Titanium White - Yellow Ochre

As I sketched in the flowers on the blank canvas, I decided that I would do two paintings based on this design. The first painting would have flowers with petals that were pointed at the end and later I would do another painting with flowers with more rounded petals like seen in the initial sketch.

Charles Kaufman adding finishing touches on the painting.

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