Apron Dress Form and Flowers Original ACEO Watercolor

Inspired to paint this morning since it is a snow day. We have about six inches so far and it is still snowing - that is a lot for our area. Very exciting. We were pretty dry and parched for many weeks. For the ACEO I thought of an apron and a dress form. I've seen so many cute aprons lately and antique dress forms are great so I put them together with a little embellishment and bright colors. Lots of people collect them now, I have a little collection, how about you?

Zinna Collage Card

Playing around in photoshop I blended several of my paintings and drawings and tinted the background purple. I'm thinking maybe it is too dark. It was challenging to draw the zinnia with all the petals tucked so close together. My zinnias were very small this year for some reason.

Rainbow Tulips Watercolor Painting

I've been inspired by tulips lately and I want to make a needlework design based on tulips for a new spring design so I painted these over the weekend. I wanted to try and blend the colors as if the bulb colors had mixed, I love when that happens and there are swirls of color on the petals.

Illustration Friday - Music

I think nature makes her own music and I love to hear the quail. They seem to really enjoy each other.

Fresh Flowers ACEO Watercolor Painting

We explore the desert a lot and find great old containers that were just left by people long ago. We find wood and metal containers and I like to bring them home to fill with flowers. They are very shabby, rusted or splintery and look great filled with blooming flowers.

Pink Tulip Fields ACEO

Since it is almost winter I am missing tulips so thought I would paint some on a little ACEO format. I need to go to somewhere sometime and see tulip fields, where are there tulip fields except Holland?

Illustration Friday - Blur

I left the leaves in this larkspur painting a blur. One of my favorite things to do with watercolor.