White flowers

I was doing a few practice paintings for a watercolor group that I belong to and this is what I came up with. I don't really know what kind of flower it is. The picture makes it look almost like some kind of hydrangea but the green leaves for much larger. What I've painted is just a tiny bit of the overall picture. The overall picture had five pots with plants in them and some garden figurines in front of the pots. The flower I painted happens to be one of the potted plants. And I only painted a small portion of it. I didn't think I could manage to re-create the garden figurines with any degree of accuracy so I just eliminated them.

This is just a quick small study I don't think I'm going to turn these in as my final work on painting this image but I think it's a good start.

I like that the flower stand out on the road in there some greens and yellows and browns surrounding them but I'm not happy that the flowers turned out somewhat flat.  I think I'm gonna have to work on that and get them to look a bit rounder. Regardless I enjoyed painting them I hope you enjoy looking at them.

thank you

A rose by any other name

Having gone through a poppy phase over the last two weeks, I might be going into a rose phase.  Here are a few I sketched out.  Some good, some bad.  Hope you like them.

Cat 3

SOLD!

Ok, so I am back on animals full time now.  Here is a nice calico cat I've been working on.  With the background colors, it kind of looks like some kind of Oriental painting or something.  I'm really facing a dilema.  How much fur, or detail do I put into these paintings.  It seems as if I put in none, it's way too little, but if I put in what I think there ought to be it's way too much.  Maybe I'll just have to stick with whiskers   I don't really know what to do about it, but I am determined to figure it out.  I guess you all are going to have to get use to seeing some animals for a while I work it out.    Enjoy

Grandparents Wedding

Well, for what it is, here it is.  The people don't look quite like they are supposed to, but I think I did a lot of things right on this .  You can tell where the suit coats come together, it isn't just one big blob of color.  You can just imaging grandpa standing there in his dress whites.  I'm glad i left some highlight in his hair.

The hair was a real problem for me.   I tried to leave a little highlight and allow you to see the hair texture.  Shading on the faces was really hard.  I knew it would be going into this, but wanted to try anyway.

Well, I'm chalking this one up to experience.  Its a piece I really wanted to do, and I still like it, but I think I fell a bit short of my expectations.  I'll have to use that as motivation to do better on my next one.

Enjoy