I love drawing flowers and especially botanical drawings. What I have recently been trying out is water soluble pencil crayons. Watercolour or water-soluble pencils crayons are a unique cross-over between drawing and painting. You draw with them as you would with any pencil or crayon, but then you run a wet brush over your drawing. This…
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Purple & White Tulips
Some more fun with flowers, this time purple and white tulips.
Still life – flowers in a teacup
This still life was a very quick and simple exercise in combining the texture of a palette knife with the smoother more even texture of a brush. Flowers in a teacup Acrylic on canvas panel 20 X 25 cm The petals of the flowers naturally lend themselves to the thick, impasto application with a palette…
More botanicals
A recent commission. I will never get tired of being asked to draw flowers. I love them, and I loved drawing these three. They have to be among my favourtite flowers so I was excited to have an excuse to draw them too! Hopefully they have found a happy home back in Ireland. Magnolia Pencil…
An attempt at botanical illustrations
I have always been interested in trying my hand at botanical illustrations. My father was a forester and a horticulturist, my mother a florist and I come from a long line of fanatical gardeners so I guess it makes sense that this line of illustration would interest me. Initially I wanted to do the botanical…
Irises unfolding
Last year I made myself a promise….. That I would have my big Iris painting completed by the end of the year….. I was hoping to have it hanging up above the piano by Christmas! In my dreams!!!! Well, it is now the end of January 2012 already, and I am finally making inroads into…
White Magnolia
I have some very special memories of magnolias in November. Living in the southern hemisphere Magnolias came into bloom in November. My parents were married on 28 November 1964, 2 years before I was born. Every year the day before their wedding anniversary my father who was a horticulturist used to make a trip to…
Pink Bearded Iris
I have a very large floral painting in mind that involves a whole collection of bearded Irises. I need to develop my technique a lot more before I feel comfortable tackling this project. The canvas stands at 150 X 120 cm with 7 open bearded irises and 3 buds. This pink bearded iris is the…
Irises in Full Bloom
I so enjoyed painting the iris in bud I attempted to paint the bud once it had opened….. Acrylic on Canvas 40 X 50 cm
Budding Iris
For a while now I have wanted to paint an Iris, but for some reason I have been a little frightened of the subject matter. One day helping my daughter with her homework I had a light bulb moment….. I kept telling her, “Break it down into simple subjects so you can understand what you…
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