"Tips for Transforming Your Garden into an Outdoor Flower Painting Studio: How to Capture The Beauty"

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Welcome back to my art and gardening blog - This post features the future plan of my garden and my top tips for planning your outdoor flower painting studio. It is now the Easter weekend and the ideas for my outdoor flower painting studio are well formed. You can see the plan drawing of how I want to alter my garden in the short video below.

On my garden plan (at the end of the video) you will see the painting positions that I have designed into the garden annotated with red directional arrows. These positions are where I will set up my easel once the garden forming works are complete. My garden is currently on 4 levels and I want reduce it to 3 levels by building up the bed at the back of the garden. I also took an Easter trip to the garden centre and started buying peonies and roses to add to the garden.

Here are my 3 top tips for planning your flower painting garden studio:

1. If you have different levels in your garden try to work with them instead of levelling everything out. This will give you visual variety to the spaces and is especially effective if you have a small garden like mine (it also cuts down on any heavy work). If you have a garden on one level add vertical elements to break up the space (using fence panels and garden ornaments for example). Think about it as a visual journey with places for your eyes to rest that can become the focal spots for your favourite flowers.
   

2. Next, think about creating little views and vistas in your garden plan - any changes in level will really help with this. With the benefit of different levels or vertical & horizontal visual breaks in a one level garden, lots of different vistas and compositions for your paintings will become evident. As the seasons change this will give you even more variety to your paintings.
   

3. Final tip - think about the journey of the sun through your garden spaces. This will affect what you plant where but most importantly will establish where shadows will be thrown while you are painting that may hinder you. The plan of my flower garden painting studio shows how the sun tracks across the sky in mid summer. Its worth being aware of this when thinking through painting positions in your garden and what time of day will be the optimum time to paint from the positions shown.

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NEXT POST:

In my next post I will be showing you the hard landscaping products and accessories I have chosen for my garden transformation along with the costs and the suppliers.

FUTURE POSTS:

Future posts will deal with my plant colour scheming, planting plans, planting costs and plant suppliers in my local area.

ART UPDATE:

I will use this section of of my art and gardening blog to show my finished paintings. I am currently working on a large tulip watercolour.

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