Showing posts with label pale yellow orchids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pale yellow orchids. Show all posts

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Orchids


8.5x10.5 watercolor of pale yellow orchids I photographed while plein air painting at Alldredge Gardens in Midland, TX recently.
The handmade A4 rough paper was bought when visiting the Tate Gallery in St. Ives, Cornwall and I was afraid it would not be suitable for a fluid floral.  The bottom image is sans background just to show the difference a little dark makes.  In the finished work you can see other orchids and some pots top center.  Quite fun and entertaining! I can paint them but not grow them.

Open Hollyhock

12x9 watercolor using Daniel Smith paints on Aquabee 140 lb cold press paper done week before last as a follow piece to the ink hollyhock/T...