Spring has come to Montreal very slowly this year, which I like -- it gives us time to adjust from our Canadian deep freeze, and to really enjoy the incremental changes each day brings. While friends further south were posting pictures of cherry blossoms and daffodils, we were still looking at snow...so it was lovely to have a florist call us and say there was a delivery. A friend had sent us flowers in honor of his OWN birthday -- what an unexpected and beautiful gesture! This was the second of three bouquets we've enjoyed this spring, and it's the one that I managed to sit down and draw, and then paint.
The drawing started out as pure line, but I felt that the shapes were just too complicated to read that way, so I added some shading while trying to keep it all fairly lively.
How different it feels in color! I like the drawing more, but I think most people would probably prefer the watercolor.
In any case, I appreciated the hours I spent looking at these flowers - a challenge for the artist, and a respite from the sadness of the world as so many people continue to suffer from the virus and the inequalities of access to care, medication, and vaccines. Please give a donation if you can: what would you have gladly paid for your own vaccination?
Lovely -- the painting, the drawings, your thoughts. Thank you
Posted by: Gretchen T Hall | May 08, 2021 at 08:08 PM