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Friday, July 5, 2013

Postcard Painting #9: Geranium


GOAL: to watercolor a postcard every day in July (even if it's only a paint smear).
This is this morning's fourth attempt to paint a geranium on my back porch. The first three turned into mud baths. I tend to overwork...

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4 comments:

  1. LauraBJuly 5, 2013 at 2:47 PM

    love it!

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  2. The CrowJuly 5, 2013 at 6:59 PM

    Beautiful; captures the hidden spirit of the plant, I think.

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  3. momoJuly 6, 2013 at 11:04 AM

    I always love your watercolors! From my mother's experience with doing botanical watercolors I know how many mudbaths it can take to get to the image that satisfies the vision.

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  4. FrescaJuly 9, 2013 at 3:16 PM

    Thanks, Laura and Crow!
    I like putting paint on paper.

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