Tall White Peonies
This dramatic watercolour began its life as a painting demonstration for the BRUSHWORKS group in Comox, BC. I chose this rich bouquet (from Thrifty Foods, no less) because of the contrast between the snow white blooms and deep green foliage. It also contained some bright neon green blooms (no doubt created with food colouring in the water) which I opted not to paint in, since nobody would have believed they were real anyways.The bouquet was also decorated with sprinkles of silver glitter (it was early December....) and perhaps I might decide to do the same and crop it for my Christmas card for 2011.
Technically, I used M. Graham watercolours on stretched 140 lb d'Arches rag paper apporox. 12" W x 19" H. This bouquet was fun to paint and I think the group enjoyed it.
