Water colors

Hello there!

Since February of this year I am studying a gardening course at Fristad Folkhögskola, close to Borås here in Sweden. I have been working in the business for a few seasons now and came to the conclusion that it would be a positive thing to do that course that could eventually land me a great job!

As a part of this course we are expected to learn about flowers and plants and so on. To help me do that I started to do small drawings and paintings of them. I made them for it is easier for me to learn them, and to sort of, get to know them. I did NOT make them to save time...! Mark my words these bundles of joy are time consumers of the highest degree!

I will now treat you to a selection of my best ones, starting with the first and second batches of water colors.

Starting out I took whatever water color paper I had at home and ran with it! Here you see Populus tremula. I will only write the scientific name for them, for it is easier for the reader to search for information on the plant or flower or tree with that name instead with a Swedish one. 

Sorbus aucuparia, when I made these paintings I realized that the quality of the paper was really bad, I could only paint a few times, or get the paper wet about three or four times before it dissolved!

Hepatica nobilis

Narcissus pseudonarcissus

Narcissus poeticus

Allium sphaerocephalon, here I used a better paper! Even though art is not a material sport, and I do not like to spend too much money on art supplies, mainly because I do not think I can do them justice; but, it is awfully nice to work with materials of good quality!

I hope you liked them, when I browsed through them I could see that my skills have increased, which means that later additions will look even better!

Take care!