PATTERNED MAUVE IRIS

You may remember when Anita visited me back in the winter time, we played with acrylic inks and on the third day, I believe, I eventually created a rather more controlled piece - a yellow and mauve iris study from a photo I had taken in the garden last summer.

I decided I wanted to use this style for submitting work to the Art Circle summer exhibition at Norwich Cathedral, so planned to create a second iris. I scanned through my photos taken at a friend's garden a few years back when all her specialised iris plants were in full bloom and chose this patterned one - and here it is again on 16" square Hahnemuhle Quattro 140 lbs matt watercolour paper, one of my favourite blocks for flowers whether watercolour, acrylic or ink

Finished piece -

Here is an early stage when I decided to add the blues into the top background.

and as a reminder here are the two pieces together both framed in boxed silver with double cream mounts.