Orchid Painting

Hi all,

So, apart from sewing I also love painting. My favourite thing to paint is definitely flowers, their colours and shapes are always so inspiring to me. For my AS course work in art I decided to focus on painting flowers, working primarily in acrylics. It all culminated in my final piece which was this orchid. I had wanted to do it across three separate canvases, but instead I used one huge one (4 foot by 5 foot aprox.), and divided it up with the use of three block background colours, which fade downwards. I found the orchid particularly interesting to paint, as the central part of the flower kind of looks like a mouth. (I also found lilies really good to paint!) My paintings never have any hidden meanings or dark deep messages, they are simply what you see is what you get. And I hope you enjoy seeing them :) 

xox Niamh xox