Palm Sunday - Easter, and the dogwoods are bright against the Carolina blue sky. I snip a stem from one of the trees, and place it in a vase for my daughter-in-law's birthday dinner. I sketch the blossoms, in their unnatural face-on view .... but I'll have to do this again standing by a tree and stem to capture their quality of DANCE that I see each time I look at those blossoming trees.
I also found trying to capture that light yellow/chartruse/sienna/gray that lines the cupping petals a REAL challenge!
9 comments:
You did an EXCELLENT job on those cupping petals! Hope you have a lovely family celebration tonight.
Yes, they are certainly gorgeous! You have really captured their beauty!! I love that you took the time to do this on a such a busy happy day.
Lin,
These are Great! On both the white of the petal and the cupping of the edge, you did an outstanding job! Hope you had a wonderful dinner.
Your dogwood flowers are beautiiful, Lin.
lovely flowers paintings!
Lovely cool colours in contrast to the warm colours of the flowers below!
Your painting is beautiful....spring in the south...I love driving down there and seeing the dogwoods blooming in the woods.
the dogwoods here in ohio aren't quite ready yet, but they do dance, don't they. that's what i love about spring! good job on drawing the dinner flowers!
Just beautiful, Lin! Wish we lived where the dogwoods grow...but we are in the desert. Your painting is lovely...makes we long of East Texas.
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