Picking, Drawing and Painting Flowers

Pink Flowers out of the Garden and back again

We planted these from seed so I was very happy when they finally bloomed and eager to do everything I could with them.

First I started with a few drawings on bits of my outgoing mail. This one was on an envelope.

Next I moved on to a card and envelope set in watercolor.

  After that I rearranged the flowers and removed the droopy ones before painting them in acrylics on one of the posts for my wheelchair ramp.

I was quite pleased with the likeness on that and eager to get the post installed so that I could get the full effect.

It pleased me that these flowers had now become a permanent part of the garden where I can see them out of my window all winter long.

Out in the garden again...almost

Until I get a wheelchair with all terrain tires I won't actually be able to get out in the yard and garden so for now I'm contenting myself with rolling up and down the driveway while deadheading the lilies and tending to some of my plants in pots.

All the yellow lilies and the daisies have finished blooming and the only color left is the orange lilies and pink cone flowers.


This is bad news for the painting I'm working on unless I want to change what sorts of flowers I was in the middle of painting. The only other alternative would be to work from the photos I took before.

Painting flowers in the garden, pink floral horse

Garden Photos and art to decorate with

Here are a couple of photos of some of the flowers I've grown here the last couple of years. I printed them on large photo paper and cut them out to decorate the doors and bulletin board at the Senior Center. it was find to find another way to share the garden with even more people.

  The red tulip was one of my very first watercolors about 30 years ago and I also printed this on a full page and cut it out to help decorate for spring.

 This group of lilies was from an acrylic painting.

 These lilies were all done in watercolor.

Blue Arbor Project

 This deep a blue in the shade needed some brightening up so I looked around the garden for ideas and found these in the border:

 I think it's going to work out nicely, don't you?