Roses Class at NBG

Hi! Yesterday was my Roses Class at Norfolk Botanical Gardens. We had 4 students,pictured are Kathy,Bobbie, and Jeffery.. also Corey. We had a lovely time.Here are the roses from the gardens we enjoyed painting. Yes they smelled divine,so very sweet and different smells for different roses. We all painted roses. Kathy, a large red rose, which involved lots of glazing, Jeffery, chose a yellow one, Bobbie a peach rose,and Corey, did an orange one.All did a beautiful job. I did demonstrations,and we went over ..sketching,basic washes,... We had an exercise in contour drawing and filled the day with watercolor and roses...how wonderful! Have a great rest of  your weekend. talk to you soon,Diana

Frogs and Roses

Hi! I worked on my frog watercolor yesterday afternoon and just finished it a few moments ago. I decided to go over the leaf on the right. I loved the colors but thought it was distracting. I'd just read a blog about simplifying and this is how I applied it.

 I'm teaching a class on roses on Saturday at the Norfolk Botanical Gardens.  Their roses are magnificent. Here's the entry to their rose garden.. Yes, I'll take photos Saturday. My thoughts for class is everyone do a large rose and if we have time do a pour with some long stem buds. (I may reverse that).Here is "Rose"my watercolor. I went to the florist and went thru every rose they had. Yes.. it took me an hour. I found two roses I considered perfect, or close enough, and bought just those two. Ha Ha.. They had even let me go thru their cooler in the back room to choose the roses.. The Right Touch in Nassawadox,Va. Well I came home and painted "Rose". What we do for our art!!! ha ha.

 I'm sorry to say we ate the eggplant before I painted them. Ratatouille. It was delicious..I ate it all, no hubby doesn't like it.. but I did take photos of the eggplant.

On to the next painting,first I have to clean up the leaves,vines, and wild persimmons from the art table.The puppies haven't been born yet and I've held myself back from calling.. to see how the mother is doing.. I'll let you know when I do and if I can I'll get some photos of the baby asap. talk to you soon, Diana