California Poppy

16x12 watercolor on Italia Magnani 140 lb cold press paper completed yesterday, a macro view of a small golden yellow orange poppy, or California poppy.
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Poppy Cup

9x6 watercolor and Brusho on Canson 140 lb cold press paper done today.  I did a blind contour pencil sketch for the poppy and made up the rest as that's about the only way to get looser lines.  Brusho was applied first in Orange to its petals, and two greens were used for the foliage.  Background is indigo and ultramarine blue.
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Orange Sherbet Poppy

6x4 alcohol inks and ink (Micron 01 pen) on professional photo paper that was one of the demos done at my last workshop class on Feb. 10.  With this technique you simply introduce line, a design element, into a large shape such as the pale orange ink to indicate more realism.
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