Blue flowers

I don't know if these flowers actually exist in real life, but they're something I love to paint, and so here they are, on another one of those little pots:

This is also a gift, so the many views I have taken are really for me - to remember what I've done, and how I did it.

Blue on blue

I've been thinking about what to paint for a friend - and so I've been monkeying around with stuff, and yesterday, I thought I'd try out my favourite: tone-on-tone.

I used blue (although I know her favourite colour is purple), and since it was a round board, tried out a border design in a circle. I don't think it'll do for a clock-face, though. It looks too much like a wreath. So, I'll have to split it, I think - a larger half-circle at the bottom, a smaller half-circle at the top.

With my left-over paint, I practised more ferns - to find a fern that would be worthy of gracing Larnee's black bag. I don't have long more to practice, though. So, I think I'll have to settle on something soon.

Here's a shot of yesterday's work - taken on my easel.

I've taken to my easel again, because sitting on my bum, hunched over my paints, is not a good thing for me. So, it's standing, from now onwards, and I feel much better.

I have been working, though not as much as I would like to, and here're some of the flowers that I can do reasonably well. I think ;)

And, more in my quest to paint the fern, and having it look like a fern :

Blue flowers

And finally, something that came out fairly right. At least, for me. It is what I wanted, and the brushes did as I asked, and the flowers didn't bubble up into something from the Mars.

I made this as a gift for a dear friend.

First, I did the flowers . . .















And then, I added the words, by Aristotle:

What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies.