Talking of flowers

Painting flowers is a lot like the class subject of painting a background and then finding the face, except in water color you have to save a few flowers that were in your drawing mind and not get a lot of paint on the main subject, then paint around that in layers and hunt for the extras, there are buds, backviews, sideviews, that sort of thing, I usually save a few leaves also like I did the 3 flowers that were the main focus. You hunt for shapes and they appear. I taught this in class also some years ago, and it takes a bit if squinting, imagination, plus a willingness to

see what there is, not what you want there to be. I have relearned this recently. This thought of what there is and not what you want there to be plays in our lives in a lot of aspects.

There is a lot of learning, Acrylics, watercolors, pencils, crayons, oils, pastels, all work differently and watercolor interacts with the paper quite differently than other paints. You have to be willing

to let the paint run, mix, flow, as it wants with just a little control. And there is another factor

the make up the of colors interact differently with each other so that is another thing to keep

in mind. Some colors are more transparent than others and that causes a different reaction of the paint when they meet on the paper.

So more flowers today. I did not get to work on what I wanted to show you, too many things

that entered into the day. I saw things that were there when I really wanted to see something else.