Sunday, July 1, 2012

Sunday Sketches

Name that flower, please!

It spreads like crazy and reminds me of a bad hair day.

What a challenge to switch from oil painting to watercolor painting. Recently, I have been working on several square oil paintings to enter in a fundraiser art show. I wanted to have a sketch for today, so I decided to do something quick in watercolor. As I was layering paint I realized that I lost the watercolor effect. So here is a watercolor painting done like an oil painting.......weird!

I e-mailed my friend who is a master gardener about the name of the flower......unless YOU know!

ANSWER: Centaurea Montana

6 comments:

  1. i really like it! the depth and the colors are great.
    have a great week

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  2. this is lovely Joanne, and would never have guessed its name!

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  3. Oil or watercolour, it is fantastic. I LOVE how the shading turned out. Very beautiful. :)

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  4. swapping between oils and watercolour must be a huge challenge, but this is simply lovely... really gorgeous...so sorry for being so late getting here...xx

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  5. I can see how making the transition from oils to watercolor would be a huge challenge, but I think it's cool to see a piece of art done when the tools are used in an unexpected way. Nice work on these flowers and the ones in the last post.

    (It's been so long since I painted in oils I probably wouldn't even remember how.)

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  6. Beautiful painting, but I've never learned to love C. M. it spreads all over my gardens, and lures me with it's early beauty, then BAM! Dries out flops looks ugly...

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