the black tulips 19.11.16
studies for the black tulips 19.11.16
saturday’s bouquet
Art studio
weekly photo challenge: magic
the deckle edge
a birthday bouquet
Happy Birthday to the special someone who said “yes” all those years ago.
With love.
Remembrance Day 2016
Lest we forget.
From Yardwork to Artwork: The Hydrangea Story Part Two
The evolution of today’s image in Part Two of The Hydrangea Story began with the rescue of the remaining hydrangea flowerhead seen in Friday’s yard work gallery featured in Part One.
Happy Birthday to Joni Mitchell
From Yardwork to Artwork: The Hydrangea Story Part One
Friday’s yardwork, which I hinted at in the Weekly Photo Challenge: Chaos, resulted in another artwork afternoon in the studio this weekend. Last May I was trimming a rather unruly photinia which featured in the post From Yardwork to Artwork: The Photinia Story. This time clearing our patio garden involved cutting back a hydrangea that was beginning to take over rather like The Day of Triffids, as described in the 1951 post-apocalyptic novel by the English science fiction author John Wyndham, a story that may be familiar to some of you.
As you can see Sunday joined me and enjoyed the catnip
The trimmed stalk made for a useful drawing tool.
Part Two to follow…
desktop bouquet
3.11.2016 watercolour, pen and ink 11′ x 15″
when it’s raining outside
bouquet of the imagination 27.10.16
branch majesty
I rescued this majestic branch whilst walking home one day last summer and brought it back to the studio. It was about to be pulverized in a wood chipper but like the photinia that you will remember from my yard work to art work story, it became my model.
Using the small branches from the photinia as drawing tools it started to come to life transforming my empty sheet of Arches watercolour paper one warm July day.
Finally, as I completed the painting today with the brushes from the Gift of the Four Treasures, the spirit of the branch filled the studio once again and its story was complete.
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