Pansies

Having fun painting pansies from the garden.
Yesterday we had hail that smashed most of
the blossoms on my flowers, or should I say
the blossoms that the deer haven't eaten yet.
Montana also had a tornado in Billings. Still
waiting for summer and sunny skies.

Experimenting

I was experimenting with fluid acrylics
and messed it up bad with the background
which is way too busy and the yellow
orange color was not what I intended.
As you can see some purple washes dried
before I could rinse it off. Will redo
this one and re-work the drawing. Always
learning from our mistakes. I did enjoy
getting the batik look in the washes when
you can rinse off the half dried paint.

Irises

watercolor 15" x 15"

Tried this on Fabriano 140 lb.soft press
paper. Still undecided if I like it.
It was easy to lift some paints and
blooms were easy to make. Snowed today
alittle, but spring is just around the
corner!

Magnolia

watercolor

Came across a photo of a painting I did
a number of years ago while I was
organizing reference photos today.
A past teacher showed me how to work
with water, runs and blooms and this
is the result of that lesson.

SOLD

Luminesce

watercolor 21" x 24"

Poured, splattered, and used Derwent
aqua pencil flakes to add color on the
violet background and center of the flower
in some of the red.