Morning Glories

Ok, so in a past post you all found out that Morning Glories are one of my favorite flowers.  I love the way the just keep going.  Water them, they grown, neglect them, they grow.  Forget about the, they come back the following year.  And each year they have all these wonderful flowers on the.  They are survivors.

I don't know if these flowers turned out exactly as I had planned, but I like morning glories so much I just had to post the.

I was hoping to get a nice dark green around some of the flowers to indicate some leaves or greenery behind the flower.  I don't think I quite got that right, but it does make for a bit of a different look.   I think I need to work a little orange into the picture to really make the flowers pop off the page.

Well, at any rate I had a blast painting them, hope you enjoy them too.

Morning Glories and Roses

Building on yesterdays lesson, I decided to spread out just a bit.  Today, it was morning glories.  These are some of my favorite.  You plant them and they keep replanting themselves and seem to grow whether you care for them or not.  

I think I rushed these, and the subsequent roses, just a bit.  I didn't give my paper time enough to dry and as a result, they didn't turn out quite like I wanted.  That's not to say they turned out badly, just not quite what I wanted.  You can see there is one hiding in the middle of the painting.  I guess it looks like its behind the others.  I wanted to paint 5, but in my rush, that one got a little covered up.  Oh well.  Live and learn.

The red that is on the left hand side is the poppy painting from yesterday.




So, in addition to the Morning Glories, I painted two roses.  I rather like this first one, though I think I left a bit too much white on the inside.  The second one....eh.  I tried to paint it a bit from the side and missed my mark, thought I think I know what the real problem with this is:  The outside petal is too shallow.  Had it been deeper, it would look less saucer-ish, and more flower-ish.  Something to remember for next time.

Well, I hope you really enjoy these.  They truly were fun to paint.