This painting is of swirled rosette flowered roses made from cake decorating tips as a tool and thicker paints illustrating the impasto style. Impasto is "thick application of paint."

 

The background is made of acrylics also, but that has a watercolor "look." The watery paint can contrast nicely with the thicker paint.

 

All roses, stems, and leaves are raised off the surface. The cradled panel is used to support the weight of these thicker paints, and just be a better quality than canvas.

 

Colors are of a rich burgundy wine. Amazingly, a bit of white added to the same color makes the pinks in the background have the same color scheme, yet still radiate with variation.

 

A few different varnishes cover this piece. One is a matte varnish with no shine that makes the background look best, and the shine varnish draws out the flowers' brilliance. Adding shiny and matte contrast to a painting while the whole painting is protected, can also be a nice contrast.

 

This painting was made for the book,

Make Impasto Rosettes with paint now on the Kindle market for those who would like to learn the skill of making fine art paintings with cake decorating tips and thicker paints.

 

The short book with many pictures has some added tips and mistakes to avoid on varnishing, a topic often asked about by artists.

 

This beginners book is based on a pre-requisite course, "Simple Sculptural Rose" that shows you how to get the paint thick and bag it for squeezing, and where to buy it in bulk. To get a complimentary copy of this online video pre-requisite course, sign up here.