Poppies and Foxgloves from the Garden

 Every Spring I wait to hear my friend, Susan tell me that her poppies are in bloom. This time they had bloomed and it rained for several days. She told me they would only last a few more days at the most, so I scurried over to her garden and painted them.

Susan also had foxgloves that were in bloom, so I did a loose painting of them too.

#30x30DirectWatercolor2018 - Day 10 - Garden Sketches

My very generous friend, Susan invited two of us to come and paint the peonies that were blooming in her garden...after breakfast at the diner. (We needed sustenance for painting.) This is 5 x 7 and was done for the #30x30DirectWatercolor2018 challenge. Peonies are hard because they are sort of shaped like a ball...but not like a ball, with crazy irregular petals...and lots of them. lol This probably took me nearly 2 hours.

When I finished the peonies I wanted to do a small direct watercolor of the foxgloves. My small sketchbook is square and the pages weren't long enough to fit everything so I did this one on the diagonal.

I posted a few of the black & white garden sketches for the Sayville Garden Tour the other day. Here are the sketches done for the other 3 gardens.

Garden 4

Garden 5

Garden 6

30 Paintings in 30 Days - Day 12 - Foxgloves

Today for Day 12 of the "30 Paintings in 30 Days" I painted foxgloves. Those patterns inside were not easy. lol I used a photo I had taken at a garden out in Bridgehampton that my plein air group had  visited. This is 5 x 5 inches.

#30paintingsin30day

There are a lot of great paintings by some of the other artists participating in the challenge. They can be found here:

http://30paintingsin30days.weebly.com/blog

This was sketched from the window of a market/cafe in Jersey City when I went in to meet the urban sketchers. It was much too cold to sit outside so we looked for a view from inside.