Spring anywhere to be seen?
Except for California -- we live in eternal sunshine -- what is happening with this crazy weather? It's March, we should be having the beginning of spring. I'm a mood for flowers -- but wait, not THOSE DOODLE FLOWERS.
I continue to be inspired by Egyptian motifs -- the stylized LOTUS flower is such a beautiful design. However, instead making it flatly, I added some "dimensionality" to it.
The fun thing about this is that you can add a million different patterns to the base of the flower or to the petals, creating so many variations!
I applied a really soft and painterly watercolor background, then colorized and shaded with pencils:
And here are more shots of the final picture, made over a 3.5inch Zentangle® tile:
Lotus Flower Video Lesson
Learn exactly how to create painterly ELEGANT STYLIZED flowers based on Egyptian lotus motif, using the power of foreshortening to create 3D shapes. An advanced hour-long video.
This color scheme was not my favorite when I finished the piece - what was I thinking! - but it's starting to grow on me. Here is Pickpocket (Tomàs Padros) and also a coiled ribbon pattern similar to Cadent with a lotus in the middle, found on Plate X (Egyptian) of the Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones, 1865. Ancient Egyptian ornament was mostly very geometric; flowing lines like this were very rare. Tangled with inktense and pitt artist brush pens.