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Expressive cacti – green original watercolor succulents Painting
Spines and space forms of green cacti – expressive watercolor, close to abstraction. My work here is a single copy of my unique and original handiwork. It is made on special, high-quality 100% cotton paper designed for watercolor from the world’s best manufacturers and has a density of 300 grams/meter. Make an offer for this work! If you have any further questions about this artwork, if you want to see more photos, please, don’t hesitate to ask!
Original Created: 2021
Details & Dimensions
Painting: Watercolor on Paper
Original: One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size: 12.2 W x 16.1 H x 0 D in
Frame: Not Framed
Ready to Hang: Not applicable
Packaging: Ships in a Box
Delivery Time: Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Handling: Ships in a box. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From: Turkey.
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My name is Natalia (Delnara is my creative pseudonym). I’m from Ukraine. I’m a full-time artist, my passion is painting and travel. For seven years I traveled to different countries of Europe and Asia continuously, lived and painted for a long time in different cities. During this time, I have created over 2400 works in 38 travelbooks, as well as many paintings that are in private collections in Nepal, Australia, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey, and other countries. For the last year (starting from March 2020), I have been living in Turkey. I am inspired by nature and tropical themes. I have lived for several years in different countries of Southeast Asia and now tropical themes are a part of me. Bright colors, sun, picturesque plants – what I like to paint and what I think looks harmonious in the interior. Right now I’m reevaluating my artistic practices and all those experiences and impressions I got while travelling. I’m working on a new series, using the polysemy of the concept of “migration”, while trying to find new facets of the multicultural and multiethnic society. I use a dynamic worldview, rejection of a settled way of life and migration as tools to re-actualise my “mental map”, as a way to see more clearly and get rid of automatic perception. Being a nomad used as a cognitive tool in the artistic field allows space for miracles and manifestations of life itself.
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Source Photos for Watercolors
I collected several hundred sunny photos of flowers, cacti, leaves, fountains and shadows along the pathways of the arboretum.
It was a fun harvest, and I couldn’t wait to get back to the studio to see the images on a larger monitor.
If I want to paint a face, or a still life, I browse those reference images on my computer, by subject. I use a Mac, and the Photo App allows you to create customized Albums.
I keep my art reference photos organized by subject for easy retrieval. All my photos are uploaded to the Cloud, so they’re visible across each of my devises. I can print the photo larger, or just open it on my ipad to pinch the image in or out for details while I’m painting. Do you do that too?
This Opuntia cactus looked fun as a painting subject, because the orb shape of the fruit reminds me of Christmas balls, but with don’t-touch-me spikes.
Resources for Painting Succulents in Watercolor
- Anna Mason is a fabulous Botannical and still life painter with extraordinary attention to details. You can watch a quick video of Anna painting an echeveriain Watercolor, or sign up for one of her full length classes on watercolor painting.
- Craftsy is another source for great online courses, and they have some freebies too. This text and photos introduction to painting cacti in watercolor is a fast, simplified way to paint a handful of succulent watercolor postcards. (You could also paint rocks into a cactus cluster in a pot too.)
- Philip Boelter paints a line-up of cacti in pots, using gouache on black coldpress watercolor paper (
- This cacti watercolor painting video has no verbal instruction but the demonstration is close-up and fun to watch. Watching another artist paint has enough hints about process to fuel some fresh inspiration. Grab your brushes and get started!
- Owen Mann made a series of beautiful succulents in pottery clay and glazes, and dubbed them Floramics. See his lovely work here.
Audiobooks in the Studio
These books (below) entertained me beautifully while I painted this cactus watercolor. I totally enjoyed listening to each of them.
I especially loved the book The Vanishing Velasquez . If you like non-fiction history, observations on historical traditions of painting portraits, artist to patron protocol, hierarchy in a King’s castle in the 1600’s, and analysis of Velasquez’ paintings from a deeply humanized perspective, listen to this book.
