Painting Poppies #3: Poppies at Sunset

Here are some of the colors I used for the painting. I also used the Da Vinci alkyd gel medium for the oil paint.

This is a 10 x 14 canvas.

I knifed on titanium white mixed with alizerin crimson and titanium white and ultramarine blue.

Van dyke brown

I knifed sap green over the van dyke brown.

I used a palette knife to pull the sap green/van dyke brown combination up and give the illusion of grass.

I then added in emerald green to lighten it up and add more dimension.

On some of the higher stems, I added some lighter red buds for distance. Then on the "close"/higher stems I packed on the paint to make the flowers and used a van dyke brown/sap green mixture for the centers.