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Just as in the white Calla Lily piece, the challenges of painting flowers with a hard edged knife is how to create soft edges. It’s easy to create crisp, hard edges, like where the bright yellow petal is adjacent to the dark background; it’s a bit more difficult to merge the layers of paint into a soft edge, like those areas where the shadow areas of the petal turn into the lit areas.
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Impressions of a Calla Lily - a bit of healing art for today.
https://renata-natale.pixels.com/featured/impressions-of-a-calla-lily-renata-natale.html
It must be winter, my neighbor's Calla Lily is blooming. (Good Morning from Bernal Heights.)
Calla Caress
Available for purchase here:
https://jessicajenney.com/featured/calla-caress-jessica-jenney.html
This image was painted for Helyna Clove's upcoming dark fantasy novel Imbued. I'm so happy with the result! I got to play with light and brushstrokes and to paint plants, so of course it was very enjoyable.
Helyna writes great books, by the way. I've recently read her space opera stories and I really love the characters and universe. Disclaimer though: I've also illustrated the cover of her book Skylark in the Fog so I'm not super objective ^^
"Calla Lily," Fidelia Bridges, 1875.
Bridges (1834-1923) was an American painter who is best known as a Pre-Raphaelite, or "Romantic Realist" as American Pre-Raphaelites were called. She was known for her delicately, microscopically detailed yet serene depictions of plant life, generally in natural surroundings; according to some, she successfully combined romanticism and science.
She attended the Pennsylvania Institute of Fine Arts and was a friend of illustrator Howard Pyle, and with Pyle was an early environmentalist, joining the American Forestry Association. She was also governess to Mark Twain's daughters for a year! He later became a collector of her art. She also became an early designer of greeting cards...which some critics feel has made later generations devalue her work.
Once highly sought after, she's fallen a bit from the radar, in part because she worked a lot in watercolor, which is a bit light-sensitive and delicate for exhibiting. But seek out her stuff, it's lovely.
From the Brooklyn Museum.
