Here are some more steps of my Rose painting in oil.

The size is 20"x20".

In the shadows I am using all colours on my palette: Sap Green, Cadmium Yellow, alizarin crimson, burnt sienna, Cerulean blue, phthalo green, phthalo blue. I add Naples Yellow to the titanium white to have not such a harsh white - I want to have the rose not be too cool. I am curious by myself how this painting will look when it is finished.

This is just a short note. If you haven't seen it yet, there is a new link Step-by-Step-Demonstrations added in the right sidebar.

There is a full detailed study of the Rose Open Arms and also two other demonstrations, one is of the Heidi Klum Rose and the other one is a beautiful floral botanical study of a pink rose.

I hope you will find these Lessons helpful. Visit the Demonstrations by clicking here.

Rose Clair Renaissance IV - 12"x16" (30x40 cm)
painted on 140 Lb hotpressed stretched watercolor canvas

In my previous post I posted some Steps of my newest Rose Painting. And I couldn't resist and wanted to finish it as I also wanted to see how it develops.

When I started the Rose painting I only wanted to add a few leaves there but then I decided to paint more and also some buds.

Here are a few step-by-step-photos. Click on the images to enlarge them.

I used the same colours as I mentioned in my previous post.

The apricot colour was achieved with at first doing a deep layer of Indian Yellow. I then added some Translucent orange and then I used a mix of Translucent Orange and Permanent Rose.

The leaves were created with Aureolin, Indian Yellow, Phthalo Blue, Alizarin Crimson, Phthalo Green and Translucent Orange. My favorite green tube is empty,  so I needed to mix the green by myself.

Today I have started with a new Rose painting.

Yes, I know, the figurative painting isn't finished yet, but I couldn't resist. 

I have done some Step-by-Step-Photos, so you can easily follow this work in progress. At first you will see the Drawing and then you are getting an idea about how I build up my layers.

My colours in this painting are: Indian Yellow, Aureolin yellow, Alizarin Crimson, Translucent Orange, Permanent Rose, Phthalo Blue and Phthalo Green.

It is wonderful to see the Rose developing and I know the look will completely change when I start with the background. I will go with a dark background, which would make the Rose pop.

The painting has the size 12x16 inch on stretched watercolor canvas.

In my previous post I was asked by Krista, whether I am stretching the paper by myself or whether I am buying it pre-stretched. Here in Germany pre-stretched watercolor canvas are not available. So I was happy when Joyce Faulknor taught on her blog how she stretches her paper. I tried it and it is so easy to do. I have tried it with hotpressed and also coldpressed paper. It works perfect. You should try it.

Click on the images to enlarge them.

This is one of my newest paintings. I found this Magnolia on the "Landesgartenschau" this year, which is a very large Garden (Flower) show. I visited this place in late summer and there were so many many flowers, like Dahlias, Zinnias, Sunflowers, Roses ... only to mention some.

I was fascinated with this Magnolia. There was another one, which was completely white, so as we usually know it, but this one looked so golden for me and I had to paint it.

Size of this painting is 13x18" and it is painted in watercolor on 140 Lb coldpressed paper. Price is $300.

And I have to share more News with you:

Actually I am working on an E-book about watercolor.

I have already done 2 full Step-by-Step-Demonstrations. One is about this Golden Magnolia and the other one is a fantastic wonderful Rose. And there is also a white-on-white Lesson and I am sure there is much to see in this E-book.
I have done many many photos of so many steps while painting and try to explain all that what and why I am doing this and that.
I am not sure if this E-book will be finished still in December or maybe in January, because I want to make sure that it will be a really fantastic book with a lot of infos.
So if you have still any questions about watercolor painting please address them to me and I will see if I can add them (with the answers of course) into this book.

And I also have more greeting Cards.

Here is now a complete set of 8 Roses Greeting Cards. I am really having fun to creating them with the images of my paintings .