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Another deep red rose – a painting a day
FOR SALE ON ETSY LEMONADAY 6″x6″ 15cm x 15cm watercolour on heavyweight rag paper
The rose means so much but is so simple, a centre which you cannot see wrapped in spiralling petals. A stem a leaf or two, all you need.
Such a busy day, all the stuff from the space that made the studio was stored in a shed, but for complicated reasons the shed was in the wrong place, it got us through the build on the house but this week it must move so first we had to face up to the contents. Some things it is good to see again some are a little embarrassing; the back of my ancient drawing board has mould on it, an old friend showing signs of infirmity. There is a mountain of stuff piled next to the bin waiting for the next run to the tip.
Here too is a photograph of the hellebore bed; I am trying to get a decent picture of one of the double flowers they are each bouquets in their own right.
Alison
#13 a painting a day by Alison Warner on her lemon a day art blog
A deep red rose – a painting a day
http://www.etsy.com/shop/lemonaday 4.5″x6″ 11cm x 15cm watercolour on heavyweight rag paper
Ho hum I could stuff my face with chocolate or do my painting for the day; finish the Killer Sudoku or do a painting for the day; have a cup of tea or do my painting for the day; plant out the species clematis that are eking out a living in pots and reproaching me daily with their slender new growth or do my painting for today; go and encourage concreting maestro on final stretch of the shed base or do my painting for the day…. What about make a cup of tea and eat a small piece of chocolate…all the second batch of hot cross buns have gone …and THINK about the subject of the painting for the day….
Tonight’s meal is sorted, cold meat left from yesterday….I was persuaded to a small goose going cheap by the gamekeepers wife as an alternative to turkey for Easter, only once I got it defrosted did I realise it was a wild goose, it had been obviously been shot. It took a long time to cook but was very tasty and had a lot less fat than a farm goose.
First rhubarb of the year came from my brother in-law in Essex, he is not a fan of the stuff but will grow it; he is near the sea so it’s spring there a little sooner. I think I might paint the rhubarb.
Tried the rhubarb did not work so here is a rose for today, sometimes it is easy to paint the familiar, the rhubarb was rumpled and difficult to define.
Alison
#12 a painting a day by Alison Warner on her lemon a day art blog
Red camellia – a painting a day
6″x6″ 15cm x 15cm watercolour on heavyweight rag paper
I cut the camellia flowers at my mum’s house, things are further out there, here we are on the edge of a frost pocket. It’s drawn life size; these really are big and in your face red. She sat and did the cross word while I painted and told me that I was going to regret launching a painting a day as it would be too demanding. I got out a tube of red to help me get closer to the red here, the reds in the pans fall one either side of this red.
Geography course work came back finally, son who has no ability with tact said “Why did it take so long to mark?” He was told that there was a reason and that the reason would be given to his mother….she is waiting.
Alison
#7 a painting a day by Alison Warner on her lemon a day art blog
Lemon a day 