Oriental Lily Bouquet by Linda Young

Oriental Lily Bouquet

Watercolor, 14 x 21

The rains have been steady here and outdoor gardening can't be done; so the next best thing is to stay indoors and have fun painting.  I began this painting three weeks ago when the aroma from them was really strong; unfortunately I'm allergic to their scent and had to move them out of my studio.  Challenging to paint without the subject in front of me, I still enjoyed their beauty. 

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Variegated Wegela by Linda Young

I had trouble getting the contrast and colors correct on this painting scan.  It is another one of the flowers hit by the hail storm two weeks ago in the "memorials to flowers #7".  This is a Variegated Wegela and the leaves are a greeny yellow, have stripes of yellow and tints of pink on the edges of some of them.  The flower varies from white to a rosy pink. The hummingbirds just love this shrub.

 4-5/8 x 6-3/8"

Variegated Wegela, Watercolor

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Peach and Blue Iris by Linda Young

These iris had only two days of sunshine in their blooming lifetime and were full of buds for flowers to come.  They would have made a glorious daily display of color if only they had the chance to do so.  It wasn't to be their season, though, with the hail storm beating them down; not a petal was left.  However, I have to tell you, one tiny blue bud must have been hiding beneath the green foliage and has now pushed itself into the sunlight to show off what the others couldn't.  Here's my painted watercolor memorial to the Peach and Blue Iris done on a reworked piece of watercolor paper. Memorial to flowers #6

 6-1/4" x 6-1/2"

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Mom's Poppies by Linda Young

The third in the series of memorials to flowers lost by hail or otherwise.  My mother loves these delicate flowers and we both hope they'll do a turnaround and come back.  Memorial #3

4-1/2" x 6-1/2"

Mom's Poppies, watercolor

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I created this one by using scraps from old paintings that had most of the original watercolor color washed off. I use mostly transparent watercolor when I paint; but in order to get the brightness of the poppy to jump I needed to use cad.scarlett.  If this had been started on a fresh white paper, things might have been different.  It's kind of ironic that a new life comes out of the scraps.  

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Clematis by Linda Young (resubmitted)

My husband scanned this for me and it shows the colors and whites much better than I got by photographing the painting (see earlier post today). I guess I'm going to have to scan the small works rather than capture on the digital camera. Memorial #5

6-3/4" x 7"

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Clematis by Linda Young

It was difficult in photographing the finished painting to capture the icy blue of this clematis. It's in the painting but the white balance didn't cooperate with me.  Everyone who saw this climber in full bloom commented on it's beauty and how many more blossoms it had this year than any other.  A few remain near the middle of the plant; but the top sure took a beating. 

I am using scrap pieces of old watercolor paintings to do the flower "memorials".  This one was part of a sky and I used it as the "start" for this piece which already had hints of the clematis in it.  Unfortunately, the whites don't show up very well in the digital photo to show the sunlight on the petals.

6-3/4" x 7"

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