Paintersgarden: Red Tulip Project

After 15 years the bed of bright red tulips has dwindeld to just 3 or 4 blossoms and since I don't have the money to buy more and replant I've opted to round up all of the pictures that I've taken over those years and start a new collection of paintings of them.

Here's the first of the paintings to come from this series of photos.

And here it is again as I added more leaves to it.

This is the first of this series which I will be putting up on products for sale on Zazzle. After spending some time "playing" with this image I couldn't resist adding a few more leaves.

I'm really happy with it now.

This was my next attempt at doing something interesting with those tulips.

It's certainly brightening up the living room as I'm making just one more attempt at painting those tulips.

I decided to do a few drawings while I was writing a few people about the new paintings. I did them on the envelopes to brighten up the mail for all of us.

Here are the envelopes all together.

After a few drawings I went back to my paints.

I wasn't quite sure what to do with the background on this one so I tried just about every color in my paintbox.

I suppose this painting would be fine as it was at this point so I lived with it for a couple of days before deciding to make it part of a set with the last painting.