Bouquet Play

Watercolor and FW acrylic ink in 9×12 in. Aquabee sketchbook.
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QUESTIONS:
1. Are the images on my site taking too long too load? I’ve been saving larger sizes to Flickr and putting their medium size here but they are nearly 200K. I used to keep images to around 60K.
2. Do you like being able to click to enlarge or is this size big enough?

Now back to the regular post….

Playing with watercolor and ink again… I painted the flowers loosely without drawing using Kremer Pigments watercolors and then used a sumi brush to apply the ink over top. When it was dry I added a bit of Winsor Violet to the irises on each side because I couldn’t get a good purple with the reds and blues in the Kremer watercolors.

3 notes from Jana’s World today:

1. It was a beautiful sunny day but I spent the whole day behind closed blinds (to keep the glare off my computer) in my office working.

2. On the way home, I was delighted by a parade of humanity exiting the BART train at downtown Berkeley: an aging bearded hippie folk singer in gold see-through vest and red pants, followed by two Tibetan Buddhist monks in saffron robes, a handsome young African-American guy decked out in expensive designer hip-hop apparel and electronic accessories, several Asian students with fully loaded book bags, a skinny pale white woman with dyed black dreadlocks piled on top of her head, an obese woman who could barely walk, a very muscular woman with a crewcut wearing a sleeveless shirt whose arms were covered with tattoos, a young Latina mom pushing a stroller in which sat a round-faced tot wearing what looked like an organza lavender prom dress that ballooned out around her. I have to draw this! (but too tired now)

3. My silly cat Fiona seems to have spent her day in the cereal/pasta cabinet. She shredded open a box of Special K and two packages of spaghetti noodles (but only the white ones–she didn’t bother with the whole wheat, which is good because I needed them for dinner.)