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| Wildflowers on Roberts Pass |
This painting is very similar to “Fireworks,” only it’s a watercolor that I painted two years earlier. I combined several photographs we took on a biking trail called Roberts Pass near our house. The greenery was next to impossible, and the goldenrod and honeysuckle proved very hard in watercolor! I donated the painting to a fundraising auction for our local Madison County Parks and Trails, who maintain the bike path.
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Here is a little poem I wrote about the painting a while later:
To make a painting of the trail,
I chose a subject—flowers.
I carefully drew each one to scale,
And painted them in layers.
Soon purple, lavender, and white
Stood out against the green.
I’d caught a sparkling memory of
A radiant summer scene.
6 comments:
We'll soon be wishing for green again....
That's lovely! Did you mind giving up the painting?
You should illustrate your own book of poetry!
This was my first painting to sell, so I did miss it a little, but I knew from the start I would give it up, so that helped.
Beautiful! How is watercolor different from acryllic?
Watercolor paint is basically the same kind of paint as acrylic except it's more watered down. Acrylic is also a little more plasic-y, thus more permanent (it's about the same as house paint). Watercolor has been around much longer than acrylic, which was only invented about 50 years ago.
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