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Bought a red single rose today to paint on Sunday morning , my question is do i paint a bland background first and if i do what coulour suites the rose please. Got to tell you about today in a cafe in Bridlington we bought tea and scones, the butter was in those foil wraps and was very cold, i put it on the scone very gingerlly my wife said i was putting on as if it was with a pallette knife, i said you could borrow it to put on your make up!!!!!!
We havnt spoken for 2 hours.
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Not surprised your wife hasn't spoken to you. I would have crowned you with the tea. Please give her my sympathy.
Assuming you are using acrylics just paint the rose. I always kill the white of a canvas with a neutral colour anyhow in a pale shade of something. It has to be your choice, not mine or Roberts or Syd or any one else's.....its your painting. Then when you have done your main subject try mixing a few contrasting colours and having a try..... .you should be up to neatly painting close to your main subject by now if you splodge it t you can always tidy up the rose .
I would also really like to know how you get along so post the result and let us all know. I also you suggest you apologise to your wife. I think she must be a very forbearing woman .
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If I were painting a rose, and depending on the colour of the rose of course, I would paint a pale neutral background ........... probably. It would depend on so many factors: mood, colour (again) and if I were painting it in solid colour or glazing it.
I can see a red rose against an off-white background - sort of creamy blue-ish.
But then - I'm not painting it. You are. Put it against several backgrounds before painting it, and see what looks best - it won't read well against purple; probably won't work against yellow; certainly won't work against brown; might be a bit too vibrant against green; might look a bit odd against blue; would be discordant against orange - we're running out of colours here, and I suggest you go for a variant of cream, or even white, perhaps with touches of blue or orange. Or, you could build up a series of glazes against a deep dark, bringing in some strongly green leaves.
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