My lovely neighbours brought me in a basket of six hyacinth bulbs for my birthday and now a week later they have grown into the most beautiful looking and smelling blooms. So on Thursday I painted them in watercolour when my ladies came round for an afternoon session of painting together.
Here is the watercolour afternoon effort:
Inspired by Penny creating a lovely work in pastel pencils, I created a study in watercolour pencils in my garden flower sketchbook when they left. Then this evening I decided to spend time doing another study in Inktense pencils to see how different they would turn out.
Here is the double spread: (which can be enlarged sepately)
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4 comments:
Happy belated birthday, Joan! All three versions of the hyacinths are lovely!
These are all lovely Joan, but I think I prefer the 2 botanical illustrations in pencil.
These are beautiful...one of my favorite flowers. It was interesting to see the difference between the inktense and regular watercolor pencils. I don't have inktense pencils yet.
OOOOH YES! Happiest of belated birthday wishes from here in the desert of Arizona to you! Isn't it absolutely divine to see colorful spring flowers...what a delightful breath of fresh air!
These paintings are lovely...I envy all your lady friends who gather together with you to paint...what joy you must all feel! :)
Thanks for all your lovely comments...they make my Muse smile. :) I wish someday we could have a painting session together...and chat the entire afternoon away...Ahhh what fun that would be! :)
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