paintings of flowers are very challenging, but they are such a joy to paint!

If I’m not doing paintings of flowers, I’m working in the flower garden. That's one reason my college major was horticulture. Flowers are one of my favorite things, whether I am growing them or painting them.

Since I love flowers so much, I keep working on doing more flower paintings. My favorite garden flowers are daisies and roses. Daisies are not so hard to paint. See below

But, roses on the other hand are another scenario. I've been working on painting roses for several years.

It's nice to add some critters to your paintings of flowers. Roses and hummingbirds are both so pretty. This tropical hummingbird flew into a rose painting, a few years ago.

The rosy-chested "Tropical Beauty" is checking out the coral colored roses.

Here is one of my latest rose paintings that was such a "Joy" to paint. It was one of those paintings that just flowed. There was no need to labor over it.

Orange is such a happy color and the turquoise vase was a perfect compliment.

Painting is so much fun!

rose painting practice

First, I started working on painting red roses. Red is a challenging color to get the lights and darks and still have it look red. Using Cadmium Red light made it look too orange for my taste.

Then i worked on painting a bi-color rose. It turned out very pretty with the contrast of colors.

compare the orange roses (above) with these pink roses

the orange roses are an improvement, don't you think?

more paintings of flowers

Magnolias are "the" flower of the south. They are beautiful with their pristine beauty. When we are doing paintings of flowers we can't leave out this beautiful flower. And their lemony fragrance is heavenly.

Here is a "Bloomin' Basket" full of Magnolia flowers.

Learning to paint never ends. There is always more to learn. Here is a painting of "Hydrangeas" from a lesson by Nancy Medina.

Hydrangeas come in pink, blue or white. In this painting the oranges make a nice contrast with the blue Hydrangeas and the white one spark up the painting. Plus, the vase is very interesting.

Paintings of flowers are such a joy to paint. I can hardly wait for spring, so I can go out and enjoy the flowers in person.

Iris are faithful spring blooming flowers. They will grow and faithfully boom every spring. They take practically no care at all, like this "Gold-top Iris".

Daisies are one of my favorite flowers and that includes the giant sunflowers which botanically are daisies. These giant sunflowers grew in my garden one year. They grew fast from seed.

They delight our senses, as well as feed the birds who enjoy harvesting their seeds.

Sunflowers are such happy flowers, like the Son's face shining down on us in "Son Shine".

Daisies have been one of my favorite flowers ever since I was a child. So naturally, I had to paint some of these happy flowers.

These white daisies are in a porcelain vase on a classic mahogany table. “Daisies ‘n’ Porcelain”.

Here is another painting of flowers with lovely white daisies in "Fresh as a Daisy".

If you want to do your own daisy painting and learn some about using oil paints, you can. Check out this tutorial of painting these daisies. Each step is explained, so you can do your own flower painting by following the steps.

You can paint your own daisies.

It's as much fun watching the birds, as growing the flowers. The little wrens are always fun to watch.

The blue Morning Glories made a lovely painting of flowers with a perky little wren. "Wren and Morning Glories"

Iris always bloom with buddies. They don't like being by themselves, just like sisters.

Here are "Two Sisters" standing up proud and pretty. There is such a variety of flowers and more paintings of flowers to do.

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you can enjoy flower paintings in your home.