Day 2 - Bromeliad

[vilakins]

Today's entry for the naarmamo National Art Making Month challenge is an attempt to do a poster-style picture, inspired by the WPA posters I discovered recently. This is one of my pot plants, a bromeliad, in fact the plant I was given when I left my last job.

Bromeliad



It was an experiment: no outlines and a limited palette, though I ended up using 7 colours (8 with the shadow) when I only wanted to use 5.

My NaArMaMo 2008 Gallery is here.

Comments

[matildabj.livejournal.com]

You've got a real talent for these sorts of pictures. I really like it.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It's too detailed to be properly postery, but I'm pleased with it as a picture anyway.

[san-valentine.livejournal.com]

Yes, I like that. The burst of leaves from the pot is well done and I like your use of colours. I'm fond of the WPA style too, so thanks for the link to those posters. You can see I put them to use too.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Ooh, that's a good one! I didn't do as many as I could have; I was spoilt for choice.

[trixieleitz]

That's lovely, really striking :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :-D I'm going to try some different styles this month.

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

I love the detail. It's striking and grabs your attention, which is what you would want with a poster.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I suppose it could advertise a flower show. :-P

[vandonovan.livejournal.com]

Ooh how vibrant. I love the textured look to it too.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Drawing things other than people is good for me, though I suspect that B7 will make up about half of my subjects. :-P

[vandonovan.livejournal.com]

I'm shooting to do all Avon and Vila for the challenge, although I may draw some other B7 characters as well. We'll see. XD

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'm doing a Cally in the same style as the other ones I did for kalinda001, so I thought I'd go ahead and do the complete gallery. It'll use about almost half the days and I was casting about for topics last year.

Are you cross-posting to b7fanart too? I am; might as well.

I should go to bed now. I have a rehearsal tomorrow and some other stuff I have to do; eep.

[vandonovan.livejournal.com]

I probably will. I didn't crosspost the one frame of animation 'cause it seems so tiny and pointless and I'll crosspost the completed piece when I finish, but other stuff I will.

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

Very nice... the flower looks well done. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! There are about four of them (you can see three), very hard and shiny and flat. Greg thought they were artificial when I brought the plant home. :-)

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Seemingly simple and beautifully effective.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :-)

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

Some plants can look a bit artificial, especially some from the cactus-family. I won't talk about a previous neighbour who would have artificial flowers in her window boxes... :-p

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Eep! I have two cacti that do look rather artificial and are in the sense that the red part was grafted onto the cactus. I might draw one of them.

I worked with a guy who decided to have all artificial plants at home because they were easier than real ones, and brought all his pleants in to work to sell. What a dork.

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

I look forward to a cactus drawing. :)

Artificial plants, ugh. They get dusty and then they really do look fake...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Real ones can go dusty too if they have big shiny leaves. Sometimes I put mine out in the rain for a good wash (good for them!), but it's been too windy lately.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Extremely effective. The composition and colors really grab the attention.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :-D

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Ooh, very cool! Pretty plant, very nicely rendered.

(But, heh. Is it culturally insensitive of me that the phrase "pot plant" always makes me chuckle, because it means something completely different and much more entertaining here? :))

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

That can be grown in pots too. :-) A previous neighbour did that (in big terracotta ones). But yeah, pot plants are, well, plants in pots here.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like that, especially the way you've caught the leaves.

I always think that 'Bromeliad' should be some fantasy epic by David Eddings.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Hee! It would be set on a jungle planet with lots of sword fights and magical duels while swinging on lianas in the rain forest. :-P

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

That is lovely, I was considering doing botanic type pictures my self, mine will be far less impressive though. But if you don't try you never learn.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

True! It's a chance to have a go at different subjects and techniques. :-)

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Very much like those WPA posters.
Wrong leaves for a "pot" plant though! (sorry!)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I didn't have the other kind to draw! And these leaves are simpler.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Ah dear, this is lovely - I like bromelias! Just won-der-ful!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thank you! They grow well here because it doesn't get very cold. Just extremely wet.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Ah, I wish I had a winter garden in my house! I have got Echmaea - bromelia with a gorgeous pink and scarlet and indigo blossom. I take the new plants from the mother plant and now I have six of them and all six will produce new ones and...etc.Also Tillandsia does it. My poor family are so tolerant!!!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I have a plant like that! They all descend from one I bought when I first started working here. I have to give them away each year.

[crycraven.livejournal.com]

Pretty pretty. Is it done on computer, on your tablet?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yep, I'm a lazy tart. It's so easy to correct mistakes on the tablet too.

[daiseechain.livejournal.com]

Very nice. I like the limited colour use - makes for a striking picture.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's a technique I'll have to play with more.

[jecono.livejournal.com]

Ah, it's August again, that time of year when I get so envious of your talent! :) Very nice, Nico, I also love the texture of the leaves!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thank you! August's the wrong month for art here though. I have to draw from imagination or use things in the house because it's too grey and wintry and dark outside. :-(