LEMON FRESH, Watercolor Painting Still Life with Flowers

A fresh drink for the eyes? Yes! I think it's a drink for the mind.  All the top chefs in the world know the art of images when they present their food.  The mind eat first through the eyes! To see if the theory works on me.  I tried  a theme fruits and flowers with simple cool colors (white, yellow, green and white leave a lot of white).  I balanced them with a touch of warm blueish purple.    Every time, especially when I am tired, I looked at it I feel fresh!  It works!.  That effect is the title of the painting!

Wonderful Watercolor Painting Still Life with Fruits and Flowers

TEA FOR TWO, Watercolor Painting and Sketching Figures

With a brush I sketched and painted this small watercolor on the spot.  It was a scene in an 100 year old art club.  When the lady painters stopped and prepared a tea party, I grabbed an opportunity to record a lively and lovely scene.  It took about 15 minutes.  Because I thought I would not see such a beautiful setting again.  I raced.  My heart was pumping as my hand was moving real fast.  When I finished, I was in a bit of shock.  The face expression, the warm and liveliness I wished to have were there.  This painting stayed as my favorite since.

Lively Watercolor Painting Sketching People

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STILL LIFE WITH WHITE DAISIES , Watercolor Painting Flowers

Should we wait for the perfect moment to try a watercolor painting?  It is very hard to find and have the perfect moment.  I am always busy.  I could not wait for anything.  I took the matter in my own hands.  I decided to paint a picture regardless.....

I let the mood of the moment decide the colors choice.  It was not a great moment.  I was a bit tired but I decided to paint any way.  I believe painting should not always have to be in the best moment of everything all the time.  If that is the case I might have to wait forever.  I paint to search.  I paint to find.  I might get something.  If not, I would be happy because I had tried.  The truth was after the painting I was quite happy with it.  I had one of those poor old apples. Surprisingly it did not taste too bad at all!  Every time I look at this painting I feel good, real good because after all "I did try!" :-)

Wonderful Watercolor Painting Still Life with Flowers and Fruits

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SIMPLE COMFORT, Watercolor Painting Still Life with Flowers

I used the red onions to support the light red and pink roses.  The arms of the carpet roses stretch out to give a friendly welcome.  The eggs and onions are the food that support life.  Spices to give a lift and finish with drinks.

GOLDFINCH IN COTTAGE GARDEN, Watercolor Painting Birds and Cottage Garden

I love summer, a summer in a cottage garden.  I went to visit a garden center, a striking red day lily caught my eye.  I bought the pot, the only one and went home.  I love the lily.  The excitement in a home garden accelerates to a peak when the flowers bloom to welcome my favorite visitors, the birds!.  I thought about the goldfinch that come to the garden in small flock, the goldfinch that spark like summer flowers in the sun.  With a brush, I gathered 'Scarlet Orbit' Day Lily, Yellow Coreposis, and Verbena for their intense colors.  To help with the design I had coreposis and verbena in pots so I can move them around a bit.  I wanted the painting as a summary of the summer heat and its excitement.  When I stopped I realized there was a flock of ten goldfinch in the picture!  The next day I learnt that day lily just last for a day!  I was glad I had not missed it, an unforgettable memory!

Striking Watercolor Painting Summer flowers and Birds, 29.5x42cm

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THE TULIP GROWER, Watercolor Painting Figures and Flowers

Something about flowers. especially the very delicate pretty seasonal ones. They come and go.  For years, they stir up an immediate conflict inside me.  and for years I refused to even think about putting them in my garden then I realized for years I do not know how to love them.  Then I realize they were telling me something about time about the short moment that we could have.  They tell me something about life and how to live it.  How to live with beauty and live with the beautiful like a flower in the sun even just a short moment! how a happy life can be made how to have and to let go.  I am at peace with nature!  the fragile, delicate flowers started to grow inside me.  Every time I had a chance I grabbed a flower punnet from a garden center and put them in the garden.  I discovered a hidden joy.  I went with the fascination of the nursery plant specialists who created surprises every season! 

Spectacular Watercolor Painting Figure and Summer flowers, 29.5x42cm

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THE SUMMER HAT, Watercolor Painting Figure, Flowers, Summer

I love summer.  It's the fact but there's another bigger fact.  Things come and go.  The summer comes and the summer goes.  It's the big fact of life.  As yet I like something a bit more.  I know I'll miss the wonderful feeling of life with the heat from the sun in a summer garden.  I know because it happens every year!  One day I decided to paint my summer feeling so I can look at it again and again as a motivation for further works.  The moment that I just grab a hat and run outside and disappear in the garden.  It's an act of rebel against the fact of life 'come and go'.  Here it is!... my Gorgeous Summer in My Mind 

Spectacular Watercolor Painting Figure and Summer flowers, 29.5x42cm

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