Or not, depending on my mood
These tiny red flowers grow on (and along!) anything they can find to climb up – in this case an old raspberry plant.
The little green leaves belong to the red flowers, and the big coloured textured leaves belong to the raspberry plant 🙂
A stylised watercolour rose for today’s Flower of the Day 🙂
Part of my playing with paint is trying different versions of the same design – so this is another three flower study from my imagination, similar to yesterday’s but with a slightly looser painting style… 🙂
Rather than trying to produce ‘good’ paintings just now I’m happy just playing about with using the paint, exploring and experimenting and trying to work out how best to get what’s in my head (or nearest approximation) successfully out onto the paper via paintbrush and paints…
I’m determined not give up yet, however frustrating I find it at times 🙂
Another poppies painting, loose and vibrant… I got a bit carried away so it’s a bit messy, but still very colourful! 🙂
Still really enjoying playing about with paint, so here’s another stylised poppy for today’s Flower of the Day 🙂
Rather than just share the finished painting this time I thought I’d let you all have a ‘how-to’ look at the three main stages of me creating these impressionistic allium heads earlier today – quite happy with the result! 🙂
Our Hot Lips salvia is doing well this year – the little red-tipped flowers are small but eye-catching 🙂
This is my first real relative success at a loose, flowing, impressionistic painting, admittedly with the inspiration (and instructions!) taken from a book I bought to help me learn some new techniques. In one way it feels all ‘wrong’ to be so vague and incomplete in encouraging a ‘finished’ painting that is little more than random blobs of paint and water roughly placed on a page, but in another it feels wonderfully liberating to have the freedom to escape the restrictions of realistic representation… What fun! ❤
NB The book I took this from is ‘Watercolour Techniques and Tutorials for the Complete Beginner’ by Paul Clark – I think over time I’m going to enjoy replicating these paintings 🙂
Red roses by our front door for today’s Flower of the Day 🙂
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