Hi everyone,
It has been a while since my last post. I think we all need an update. This picture is pretty much the summary of the last a few months;
I have been keeping myself busy lately. I was reading The Modern Flower Painter by Anna Mason, which was my Christmas present. I love her book, because at the end of the book there are exercises that you can try by following the instructions which are pretty easy to follow. The Clematis and The Viola are from her book that I painted. What is nice in this book is, it also has outline drawings at the end. If you are a lazy person, you can transfer these onto your paper by following the lines. She tells about her technique, materials she uses, brush techniques and other good stuff. Whole book is filled with her delightful paintings. I think she is super talented giving textures to anything she paints.
The other book I was reading was Watercolor Flower Portraits by Billy Showell. I got this one from Amazon, and couldn’t wait it to be delivered. She is a composition master I think. Her paintings are so soft, so real, and they just dance on the paper. What I love about her book is, it has different chapters for painting leaves, flowers and stems. It is filled with great tips and techniques and with her delicate flower paintings. She also has projects at the end of her book.
Other than reading these books, I was taking pictures. Spring is here and all kinds of flowers bursting from the earth. Here is a few examples from San Antonio, Texas flowers;
Other than these, I was also ruining my hands making a metal pepekura of R2D2. It is so tiny that you need super skinny hands to assemble it. I do have, but doesn’t seem to be enough. It has only one arm so far, and its head is not attached yet. I will complete it soon with bunch of frustration!!!
And do you see that super, amazingly beautiful drawing right next to R2D2? It is a drawing of a pomegranate flower which I found at the HEB parking lot by pure chance. It looked so inspiring, I came home and drew it. Now it is dead but I already took bazillions of pictures of it, decided lights and shades, and took notes of the colors that I will use while painting. However, tomorrow I will visit that parking lot once more to get another live sample just in case (:
That’s what I have been doing so far other than work.
What about you? Do you also enjoy seeing all those pretty blossoms?
Art in Nature 
Lovely photos – I particularly like the Texas Bluebonnet. It has such an appealing name it makes me want to paint it. I wonder if it would grow in the UK?
Hello there! I think it would grow, it is from Fabaceae family which is a really wide family. I am sure you have examples of this family members at UK already, so why not? I grow two of them in a pot at my porch just for painting purposes. They are really pretty!
Oh I know what you mean! I have pots everywhere of plants I hope to paint when they come into flower. It is so much easier to paint from something that is growing happily in a pot than pick it and try to keep it alive in water while you paint.