Essence of Floral

Some new Floral Work, enjoy the essence:

"Chocolate Calla" (click here to view full details)

"Love Frangipani" (click here to view full details)

La Magnolia Sogna

Still spell-bound by my friends Magnolia tree.....

La Mognolia Sogna

40x20" oil on canvas

For those who like smaller paintings, more Magnolia paintings will be available soon!

all work copyrighted to the artist Jean G Dayton

Flowers are all around me

The Haven

I just love this time of year and watching all of nature just blooming - the flowers at spring time are truly beautiful, like a breath of fresh air after a winter of no colour - a very dear friend of mine has an amazing Magnolia tree which has the most exquisite large flowers, its nearly at the end of flowering now, however I didnt want to miss the opportunity of catching this majestic beauty so I took some photos about a week ago - I didnt think at the time I would create a painting however I felt deeply inspired to paint this painting............It's a massive 36x24" oil on canvas.

I have called it 'The Haven' as my friends home is just that.

This and my other new florals will be available to purchase from my site very very soon. www.jeangdayton.com

More Floral Paintings

Must be that Spring is here and with all this beauty around me I'm inspired to paint more florals:

These are 2 paintings I was recently commissioned to paint

Floral Delight

I have also been working on some new Florals...........

'Petal Rose' - painted on 3 canvasses (oil on canvas) - click on the image to view full details

'Bloom' - painted on 3 x canvases (oil on canvas) Just click on the image to view full details

In Situ

One of the best bits of my job is the satisfaction I feel when a customer is happy with his/her purchase or commission. It's so nice to get feedback from customers and from time to time I receive photos of my paintings in situ, on their destined walls! - recently I was asked to paint a 3rd painting to match a series of floral paintings, 'Fiori' and 'Fleur'; the resulting piece being named 'Flores' - my customer very kindly sent me a photo of the 3 on the wall! and here they are.... they are all oil on canvas 16" x 16" on deep edge canvas and I think you'll agree they look stunning.

So please do send me your photos of any paintings you have bought or commissioned me to paint as I would love to share them on my blog. Thank you.

Commissioning a painting can sometimes be the best way to get exactly what you want - visit my site at www.jeangdayton.com/commissions.html where you will find a step by step approach to commissioning an original piece of art!

Latest Commission

My latest floral commission to compliment Fiori and Fleur

Flores

16x16" oil on 4cm boxed canvas.

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Inspired by the Great Artists

On my return from New York I set about painting on the Tuesday, you can imagine, whilst away seeing all these amazing works of art that I was itching to get going on some more paintings! All I kept thinking about was florals when I got back, I'd completed some florals before I went away, Fiori and Fleur but I wanted to do a large canvas floral painting and had the perfect sized canvas for it, so I set about working as soon as I got back. Here is the completed piece called 'Celebration'.........

House & Home Ideas March issue

I am very pleased to announce that one of my commission paintings, a floral abstract has appeared in the House & Home Ideas magazine March issue 35 in a feature about 'Floral Art' (page152)

32" x 16" oil on canvas floral commission

More Floral Work

Blossom

Fiori

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New Floral Work

Abstract Floral Designs

I have been busy painting some new florals, they are based on the colours of Blossom, in my own interpretation in a semi-abstract loose style. Here is one of the completed pieces - painted in oils.

Fleur

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Floral Commission

I love flowers and painting my floral paintings, so I was thrilled when asked to paint a floral commission for a previous customer - painted in duck-egg blues the painting is a 36x24" boxed canvas design painted in oils with silver detail - based on my Tranquillity painting. With the customers approval this painting is called Serenity.



some closeup images of this commission

Flower Commission

Starting a commission for a flower painting, I firstly decided on the flower that I was going to use for the project.. I have some lovely Hydrangeas in my garden and am always fascinated by their beauty, i particulary love the uniform of flowers that go to make up a seemingly larger flower creating a wonderful display of colour with different hues.

Firstly I draw a rough sketch of the flower, this will form the basis for my painting.

Then I decided on the layout as i wanted to use the same image in different posititions on the canvas, to create a relatively uniform image. I have been colour charts and samples of colour by my client so I have a very good idea of what i want the finished painting to look like.

So I draw out on my canvas the position of the flowers and start the first flower. I am painting in a loose abstract style using a palette knife and flat end brush and using a blending brush to soften certain areas. I like to do each flower individually as it helps me with the flow of the painting.




All the flowers finished now, I have blended the oils and spent time on building depth and with the darker 'rose' colour:







Finally, I add the background, an ivory cream and also add blushes of rose within the background to soften. I also use smatterings of grey/silver and the darker rose colour around the painting to add more interest. This is the finished result:








closeup

copyright of all images remains with the artist Jean G Dayton 2007