Seaweed on a beach for this week’s Cee’s Midweek Challenge: Two E’s 🙂
Beached Seaweed
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Louisiana Trees
A selection of Louisiana trees draped in Spanish Moss for Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge this week…
And a beautiful tree-lined avenue creating a protective guard of honour leading up to the old house at the aptly-named Oak Alley Plantation… 🙂
Abstract Leaf Prints
I had fun using real leaves from my garden with my usual water-colour paints to play about with making abstract leaf prints (that’s both Paint and Prints with a ‘P’!) – I tried a raspberry leaf, a flowering cherry leaf, a rudbekia leaf and an anemone leaf – the anemone without doubt gave the best results, as the leaf was both strong enough and pliable enough to print its veins relatively clearly onto the flat paper. And I found using the underneath of the leaf rather than the top surface was more successful.
I made a real mess of my fingers (and my work surface!) trying to paint onto the curving leaves then printing them onto the paper, but never mind, it’s only water-colour paint so washes off easily and it really was great fun 🙂
Imagination
Until the other day the only place these prickly bright pink whorled flowers existed was in my imagination, but now they exist on paper as a water-colour painting, too! 🙂
Vibrant Flowers
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge this week shows a photograph of artists painting a flower scene in bright vibrant colours.
These Osteospermum (also known as African Daisies) growing in our garden are really enjoying the warm summer weather here in the North of Scotland. Their petals go from pink to red to orange to gold like a floral tequila sunrise, and I really love their vibrant colours 🙂
Honesty Seed Pods
Backlit it’s already possible to see the dark seeds silhouetted within the honesty seed pods – once they’re fully ripe, the delicate outer layer comes away on both sides letting the inner seeds loose and leaving thin translucent papery discs behind. These can either be left in situ over the winter months to bring a ghostly presence to the garden, or cut and used indoors as part of a dried flower arrangement 🙂
Yellow Daffodils in the Rain
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge for this week has yellow or purple as a theme, so here are a few soggy daffodils in my garden this morning 🙂
Spring Daffodils
Cee’s Midweek Madness: Letter O in Middle
Boats, slow, rocks, and road for this week’s Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge – and I was in the mood for monochrome, with three ‘O’s in the middle, so I hope you like them! 🙂
Clachnaharry Signal Box
The old wood-built, tin-roofed Clachnaharry signal box plus wooden fence and gate leading across the single track on the main railway line travelling northwards from Inverness – perfect for this week’s Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge and Nancy’s Photo a Week Challenge: Fences or Gates 🙂
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