This Original flower oil painting, was painted using the traditional Old Masters Grisaille method.
Its based on a flower I Spotted from one of my trips to the Melbourne Botanical Gardens located in Victoria, Australia.
I believe that this traditional style of painting I use, brings out the Intense colours in this yellow flower beautifully.
The Old" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Masters">Old Masters style of Grisaille" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grisaille">Grisaille of a toned under-painting followed by applying many layers of Transparent Colour, finally gives a glow to the finished painting, that modern techniques cannot recreate.