Monday, January 27, 2020

Three Black Hollyhocks

5.5x3 watercolor on Italia 140 lb cold press paper painted this afternoon quickly, brush only, so no pre-drawing with pencil and fretting over the lines.  I used a #12 round brush and the same alizarin crimson + thalo green combination for the black color.  The bottom blooms have quinacridone violet and UB along with a touch of carbazole violet in this imaginary old-fashioned garden.
COPYRIGHT 2020 Kay Smith

1 comment:

laura said...

Lovely--fresh and loose. Remind me of Emil Nolde flowers!

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