Friday, June 26, 2015

Purple Irises

8x5 watercolor, ink and collage on paper finished today.  Yesterday I drew these glorious purple irises, aka flags, which grow in my side studio yard.  After the ink line with Micron 01 pen I collaged sentences from a novel for all the white or lightest value areas, then painting was last.  Today was spent correcting values and adding iris veins in most of the petals.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.

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2 comments:

Christiane Fortin said...

Aren't beautiful flowers. Love what you did with them.

June 26, 2015 at 8:13 PM
Kay Smith said...

Thank you Christiane.

June 26, 2015 at 10:16 PM

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