Wildflowers and Carnations in Watercolor, Pencil and Ink

Here I started with watercolor and then added detail with colored pencils

This time I started bu drawing it in ink. 

Next I added colored pencil over it.

This carnation started with watercolor and then finished with some detail in colored pencil.

Here's a little overview of the project so far.

Drawing and Painting Cut Flowers

Painting Cut Flowers in Acrylics

I received this bouquet from my mother and as there is a nice variety of flowers in it I've been pulling it apart starting with the shortest lived flowers.

The next step will be to put them to work and get the most use out of them that I can.

I picked a flower and held it up to an old painting as I began to paint it into this 
canvas that had seemed all too purple to me over the last few years.

I didn't want to get too carried away so I just painted 2 flowers and thought I'd live with it w while before I decide what to do next.

Paints, knife work and color

I've been "playing with this canvas for a while. Adding bits of paint with my fingers and I drag them lovingly across and enjoy the texture and the subtle changes to the feel of the piece as I work. It's somehow comforting and relaxing all at once.

I spent most of the day and evening with it and am not quite sure where it's going but I took photos at the end of the day. First with a flash and then without to mark my progress.

There will be many changes with it in the yours but I look forward to every moment. Art is much more than most people realize.It sometimes has a life of it's own.