This 5"x7" colored pencil drawing on black paper is called "Radiant Dahlia" and is available for purchase on my Etsy page.
Like all of my 5"x7" drawings, this "Radiant Dahlia" comes with a 8"x10" white Crescent mat suitable for framing.
For this drawing especially, I paid attention to the direction of my lines, because I knew right away that I wanted to use line as a way to show the texture of the petals and to draw the eye in/out of the center of the flower.
Here are some detail shots:
Here is the detail shot I posted on Instagram:
I cropped my source photo on the sides so that the petals would fill the drawing right to the edge of the pages, and to focus on the interesting petals in the middle. Here is the photograph I worked from, as I first captured it. I took this photo at a garden in Rochester, New York in the summer of 2012, when my husband and I were in town for the wedding of one of his relatives.
Dahlias are so pretty, and pink-orange is one of my favorite colors for flowers. I feel like they often have the best range of lights and shadows at different times of day, and roses of this color combination usually dry into really interesting color patterns.
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| "Radiant Dahlia" by Andrea Arbit 5x7 colored pencil drawing on black paper |
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| "Radiant Dahlia" by Andrea Arbit 5x7 colored pencil drawing on black paper Comes with 8x10 white Crescent mat |
Like all of my 5"x7" drawings, this "Radiant Dahlia" comes with a 8"x10" white Crescent mat suitable for framing.
For this drawing especially, I paid attention to the direction of my lines, because I knew right away that I wanted to use line as a way to show the texture of the petals and to draw the eye in/out of the center of the flower.
Here are some detail shots:
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| "Radiant Dahlia" by Andrea Arbit 5x7 colored pencil drawing on black paper (detail) |
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| "Radiant Dahlia" by Andrea Arbit 5x7 colored pencil drawing on black paper (detail - shown without included mat) |
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| (Back of drawing) |
Here is the detail shot I posted on Instagram:
I cropped my source photo on the sides so that the petals would fill the drawing right to the edge of the pages, and to focus on the interesting petals in the middle. Here is the photograph I worked from, as I first captured it. I took this photo at a garden in Rochester, New York in the summer of 2012, when my husband and I were in town for the wedding of one of his relatives.
Dahlias are so pretty, and pink-orange is one of my favorite colors for flowers. I feel like they often have the best range of lights and shadows at different times of day, and roses of this color combination usually dry into really interesting color patterns.
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