Water colors 4

Another week is coming to an end and the weekend is so close you can almost touch it, the best feeling ever! Before you start your weekend I offer you a short break with four small paintings. This time they come from the seventh and eighth batches.

Somewhere along this project I realized that green is quite a complicated color. The bought colors of green did not really to the trick. It was when I started to blend my own greens that I sort of got the hue right. So, a piece of the learning curve so far is to mix my own greens!

Take care!

Molinia caerulea ssp. arundinacea

Pullmonaria saccharata

Ipomea batatas

Euphorbia graminea Diamond Frost

Water colors 2

Hi!

The week is coming to an end and you know what time it is? Yeah, it's water color time!!! I will now treat you to samples from the third and fourth batches. Just earlier today I came to think of the fact that I mention my works of art as batches...well, a small price for being productive I guess! ;-)

Enjoy and take care!

Brunnera macrophylla, when looking at these three paintings one (or I) can see an improvement in both drawing and painting.

Dicentra formosa, when I made the first paintings I needed so much water that there were pools of paint in my water color set, now the pools have diminished and it seems that I find the correct color faster.

Lamprocapnos spectabilis, I think this is one of my favorite flowers.

Betula pendula 'Youngii', the following ones are from the fourth batch, I chose this one for I like the painting, it looks like it has been done in a jiffy and has a feeling of improvisation and lightness.

Prunus 'Acolade', here was the first time when I noticed that my drawing skills started to improve...

Prunus x eminens 'Umbraculifera', ...and this time the painting improved also...

Salix euxina 'Bullata', I'm not sure but I like this one...!

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!