Wild Purple Roses

8.5x5 mixed media on paper card begun with various alcohol inks.  No pattern excited me until I took out a white gel pen and began doing line work around the shapes to form rose blooms, stems, and leaves.  Some collage can be seen lower right in this fairly abstracted floral.
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Rose Impressions

6.5x11 watercolor and pink/crimson Brusho crystals done today on 140 lb cold press Langton paper.  Yesterday I started it by spritzing water over dry paper at random then applying two new colors, Holbein's Bright Pink and Opera over wet areas.  Then Brusho was sprinkled over that and again water spritzed over the scattered crystals.  I used canned air to blow the wet pigment for an abstract background. When dry today I began isolating white and pink shapes reminiscent of roses and negatively painted those and green leaves and stems.  Quinacridone violet and alizarin crimson are the shadowed areas using a #1 script liner brush.
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Holiday Rose

4x6 alcohol inks on professional photo glossy paper done right before Christmas, so that is why the title is Holiday Rose.  With its red and green complementary colors, this loose floral heralds the holiday season in all its glory.
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Unfurled Rose

4x6 alcohol inks done last week on white foamcore board, another abstract floral piece made by using only a few colors and canned air.  Since it reminded me of a rose opening I titled it as that.
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