Ink Carnations

Carnations last for an awfully long time. I bought these at the beinning of the week for an acrylics commission (due to be given as a gift, so I haven't posted it yet), and have painted them a few more times in acrylic as well. But today I decided to try something different...

I used calligraphy inks with a dip pen (mainly for the convenience of changing colours readily). I have three bottles of ink: sepia, indigo, and Indian Red.With a generous helping of water on a size 22 round brush, these are what resulted.

Garden Flowers

The sweet peas did come from my mother's garden, but they were in a vase when I painted them.
Left: watercolour; Right: watercolour with graphitint pencil in the additional image to the top left.

The poppies and lilies stayed in the garden:

Watercolour with added white Uniball and white Derwent Drawing

Watercolour with added white Uniball and white Derwent Drawing

More Burns Night Flowers

The roses were on their last legs, it seems, but the tulips are still going strong. The recent line and wash of the roses worked so well that I used a similar treatment here, albeit smaller and with different watercolours.

Burns Night Flowers

It is a well known fact that, if you buy an artist flowers, she will invariably paint or draw them...

This is a line and wash sketch made on loose paper with a dip pen in sepia acrylic ink, and watercolour (violet, yellow ochre and Hooker's green).

But wait! There are more...

I got a lot of mileage out of those flowers...