Poppies

The whole time I was painting this I kept hearing the wicked witch from 

the Wizard of Oz saying,

"Poppies...poppies will make them sleep..."

hehe!

I'm painting my way through an instructional book on 

how to paint flowers that I bought at Michaels.

Learning is fun!

Getting married

This is my beauty getting married in September. Every day it becomes more real!

I'm so happy for her but its still hard to let her go!

Love you so much my darling!

Watercolor poppies

Got the scanner working!

My first attempt at poppies.

On TDIPT this month

 

Ophelia and her daisies!

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Flowers in my garden

I can't believe I took this picture myself! I am loving these coneflowers this year!

Been working in watercolor the last couple of weeks, including the week I was on vacation in Traverse City Michigan.

I just got a new printer, so when it is completely set up I will have some scans of my work to show. But for now, just flowers from my garden!

My palette

I got my new palette from Cheap Joes yesterday, and spent all morning setting it up and painting a picture of it. I put this painting in the scanner and it is just coming out so bright, it really looks better in real life. Maybe I should take a picture instead of using the scanner.

Anyhow,

 this is the way I have set up my palette for now. A lot of my colors are Koi and Cotman, and I would eventually like to replace them with Windsor Newton. Some of them are just not as transparent as WN.

I need to add a violet next, so I don't always have to mix it.

I love my new palette and I am learning so much about color mixing from this book:

It really explains everything so clearly.

A peach