A lovely sunny day in Portugal a few years ago ... and that sky really was that blue when I took this photograph! I grew up with a huge ... really old and really big! ... Bougainvillea of this exact shade in KwaZulu Natal in South Africa, so I was tickled to be able to capture my memory so stunningly against the orange deck cover and such an incredibly blue sky. Most definitely one of my favourite photographs.
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Another challenge painting (which, funnily enough, I did use a palette knife on when I was moving the paint in the middle of the two big red flowers!) ... watercolour on Yupo Paper. I find it keeps me fresh to be fiddling with watercolour or a craft object during the palette knife painting of a more formal painting. Otherwise I tend to fiddle with the formal painting and usually ruin it in some way LOL "Be My Valentine" Watercolour on Yupo Paper 8" x 12" (20 cm x 30 cm)
Although mainly an oils painter using palette knives, I love to challenge myself by using other mediums and other tools. Sometimes it works, many times it doesn't ... and sometimes I don't mind you seeing the okay ones. Painting No. 17 in the 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge. "Spirit Flowers" Black Ink on Paper 5.5" x 7.5" (14 cm x 19 cm)
I've recently, because of down-sizing and moving into a much smaller home, destroyed a few of the larger paintings I had in stock. "Tropical Flowers" wasn't one of those! She's hung in my bedroom for a few years now and is going straight back into our new bedroom pretty tout suite!
"Cool Touch" looking hot on a hot, hot, hot day here in Brittany, France. The heat has come really early this year ... and I'm ducking! I don't do heat LOL