White Tulips

Inspired by both Linda B. Cromer (http://www.lindabcromerwatercolors.com) whose brilliant work I saw at a show in New York and by Sylvia Abrams whose fantastic watercolors were exhibited at the Valencia Palms Show, I have decided to do a still-life watercolor for the first project on this blog. The first photograph is of the still-life I set up in the studio. The one beneath it is a 9" x 11" drawing. I then traced the small drawing and used that tracing to transpose a faint outline on a 14" x 20" 140 lb cold pressed Arches watercolor paper. Looking at the final drawing I realize I may have been a little over-ambitious with the intricacy of some of the patterns. Uh-oh.