Saturday, April 21, 2012

Gardener's Bike with Poppy Patch



9x6.5 watercolor, a daily painting, of an old garden shed and the worker's bike and basket.  Photo ref courtesy Susan (WetCanvas Weekend Drawing Event).  I edited lots of the photo out such as foreground, middle ground, paraphrenalia on the bike and clutter around the shed's entrance, and top right I added blue sky.  Foreground I added multicolored poppies.  This was done within the 2 hour time limit of the WDE contest.

Annual Purple Poppies

7.5x5.5 watercolor on Fabriano 140 lb cp paper done last week using White Nights paints along with Rosa Gallery paints. This was a fun smal...