Everyday in May...well at least one of them!:>

Savannah River Days

This is the view out the den window from where i sit and draw or paint or take a nap or.....you get the idea:> The river is about 300 yards wide at this point...beautiful sunny day...slight breeze causing some ripples on the river. Windsor Newton WC in my moleskine...MANY layers of paint ...also my old splayed paintbrush helped make the foliage.

Happy Mothers day

Attempt #1 -nice painting but does NOT look like the soft delicate colors of the original

So i bought this plant with the excuse..ummm mothers day is coming was my excuse...and i will try to paint it was the other...:> on one of my jillion trips thru publixs last week getting graduation table decorations and a cake... and painted these on Thursday nite...so now I am posting them with happy mothers day wishes to you all...

Number two...not great composition...and all the same tone

I am not particularly happy with them...the reiger begonias flowers are so delicate and pale pink but were EXTREMELY difficult to capture in wc...they turned into a pink puddle...and a pale one at that...i tried three different times...THE last try...i give up...pale but no definition at all...

stayed up till 1 am when i had to get up and drive to Atlanta for graduation the next day...not good....so the next morning i bought another begonia on my last trip thru publix ...reddish orange and yellow...