Sunday, June 30, 2013

A Posy


Beauty discarded - masses of pansies were upended in a neighbor's green bin, probably to make way for new midsummer flowers from the nursery.  They were still very pretty and I picked a handful to paint,  like this:

the pencil sketch,
 followed by colour blocking and shaping.

More painting instructions from my watercolour classes are over on my watercolour blog, http://francestyrrell.blogspot.ca/.  Both blogs have been quiet of late, but I am here and working on pretty things yet to be displayed.  So many flowers, and summer so short!

"There's pansies, that's for thoughts",
William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Act IV, SceneV) 

1 comment:

  1. Frances, it's so good to see this post, and to see how your pansy rescue mission resulted in a truly beautiful painting.

    Bravo to you on all counts. I also loved looking at the watercolor blog. The flowers are captured so well, and I admire your painting of the glass vase, too.

    This year seeming very busy to me...my additional "free time" gets filled very quickly. There are so many interesting thing in the world.

    xo

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