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.

Adding Carnations to the Tulip Painting

There's still a lot of work to do but I kind of like my plan to paint all of the fresh flowers I get into this painting until it's a nice, full bouquet.

Laying the real flowers next to where I'm working helps me focus on the shapes and shading of the petals.

I can't wait to get back to my brushes!

Re-cutting and re-arranging carnations

Carnations to draw and paint

I still haven't gotten around to drawing and painting these so I re-cut and rearranged them about a week later and as you can see they were still looking pretty good. I only had to discard one spent flower.

Watercolor pencils, crochet and a few other projects

I started this on the corner of an envelope and then went back to crocheting another hat. Once I've cleared the table of those projects I'll probably do some sewing or painting. I need some pillowcases and those would be easy to run up out of some of the fabric I've got here. I've only made $1.67 today for royalties on my art so saving some money by making those pillowcases is about the best I can hope for today.

Someday people will see my products and they'll begin to sell but in the meantime I just do the best I can with everything else.

Well, I finished the hat and started another one so I didn't get those pillowcases made yet but I am just clearing the worktable so I'll be ready to lay those out for tomorrow.

Carnations

I hadn't done any drawing in a log time so I thought I'd start out easy and do a bit in the mail. This one was on a large envelope that went out today.

This drawing was on another envelope. The red and blue versions are from my computer.

Carnation drawing, colored pencil and ink

I just "found" this old colored pencil drawing. Back in the 1970's and 80's the restaurant in Byerlys used to have fresh carnations on the tables. I drew a lot of them on watercolor note cards and post cards which I often gave to our waitresses and was pleased when a lot of the girls had put them up in their station. I even designed a tattoo for one of them!

Floral Fun

It looks like I've been busy but actually these photos are 3 or 4 years old. I'm looking forward to posting pictures of new work but just haven't gotten to it yet. Meanwhile I thought you might enjoy seeing these projects. All but one or two of them are gone now so it was fun to think about them again and to notice how very fond I seem to be of blue...or at least I was then, I don't seem to be using quite as much of it thse days (which could be more of an economic than a style choice because the blues I tend to favor are generally the more expensive ones). At any rate I'm thinking about painting today and thought I'd share that with you.