Very nice, IL! I especially like Lady Marmalade with the beads and feathers!
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Very nice, IL! I especially like Lady Marmalade with the beads and feathers!
Nice work, IL!
Lady Marmalade was inspired--love the explosion of orange!
This design show class was “Choose and interpret a song in colors of daffodils (yellow, orange, white, cream)”Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
Things are blooming in the Skagit Valley over on the mainland here right now!
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The boat ride back wasn't bad either!
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Nice!
OMG, is that a daffodil farm? Or does someone just love daffodils?
Looks like a commercial bulb operation to me. Because I am an annoying snob, I have to say those are not very interesting daffodils. But they are certainly pretty en masse and who wouldn’t love them?Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
It's not often we get nice skies like that here in the arid foothills, and the right exposures between the background and foreground can be difficult.
Beautiful, Bae!
There are all kinds of bulb farms in the Skagit Valley--some of them a riot of color.
I'm sharing the output of 6 months of quasi-determined work to improve my watercolor skills.
First picture is a gift I gave my 2-years sober brother this week.
Second picture is a fun, totally whimsical treatment of the Mona Lisa in response to the biweekly challenge my private FB watercolor group set up--which was to interpret the Mona Lisa the way you want to. Because I spent the last 4 days driving to NY, taking the train to Manhattan and back to Westchester, seeing Hamilton and Camelot, walking nearly 10 miles in Manhattan to get to the theaters, driving to NJ to take out the last bit of crap from our storage unit there, and just spending the time in a cocoon of New York-ness, I came home and painted this picture. It is not good from an artistic point of view, but I think I captured the essence of the challenge.
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The flower is beautiful. It’s very nice! Is it a rose? It looks a little bit like a lotus.Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
The Mona Lisa is fun.
At the state garden club convention I gave a floral design program along with two other ladies. The three of us interpreted a painting, interpreted it in florals.
I didn’t spend a lot of money on the container, buying a $17 barn board gray container. I put a wash of black paint over it and told the audience it represented the water in the painting underneath the surface that was murky, dark, swirling. The painting is about water and light, and those are the elements I emphasized in my floral design. The rhythmic line goes from bottom right to upper left, and so I made that line with yellow mums, representing the big round water lily pads. I used small green mums to represent the smaller water lily pads.
Hydrangeas were more sun drenched water that buoyed up the beautiful objects. I found some great Chinese lantern dried pods to represent the onion shaped glass orbs. The building in the painting is represented in my design by a small container with white fungus dried fungus showing slightly but it’s hard to see in this photo.
The artist was in attendance at this program, and he told me my interpretation was the best.:D
Here is my floral design and here is the painting we interpreted.
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Okay---I finally had to throw in my 2 cents. My whole point here is that being so-called "artistic" is a form of so-called: "Autism". Or: "On The Spectrum". Ha. Try not to cut off your ear, in response to my comment.
Catherine: Beautiful job on the watercolors! The flower is lovely, and the Mona Lisa is fun and well done.
IL: I really love your design, and I agree that it captures the feeling of the painting very nicely.
I really enjoy the endeavors shared. Such talent on these forums!
So, in one iris show yesterday I bombed in the Design division with one 4th place and two 2nd place awards. The 4th place class was fun to do and I completely understand the judges’ thinking because they said the robot head is way too large. The class was “Robots.” I show it for your amusement.
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But in the Horticulture division I won “Sweepstakes” which means the exhibitor with the most blue ribbons. On this “Queen’s Table” of section winners there are 9 stems. 6 of them are mine.
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I think the robot head is rather fun. Congratulations on the horticulture win!
Okay-----There is no doubt but what that stuff is VERY(x4444) Artistic. Yup.
Nice, IL. And congrats!
“Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.” Georgia O'Keeffe
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That is a beautiful flower picture bae [edited.]. Really very very pretty.
typo! I did not mean to call bae “babe.” Haha.
Thanks! We had a sudden surge of hot weather, and the flowers here came-and-went very quickly after being nearly a month late, so they were looking a bit sad. I thought a very very narrow depth of field would yield a nice soft focus, and make the flower look a bit happier than it appeared in real life.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
There was a positive angle though, some of the flowers had dropped petals on one side, so I could get some nice interior shots of the stigma/anther parts.
Beautiful, bae!
I do love Georgia O'Keefe and her quote points to exactly why I picked up watercolor. In my haste to garden or just to walk through the garden, I was missing the big picture--really SEEING the flowers I was trying to know, but not succeeding. I find that when I spend hours exploring the colors and shapes and components and trying to communicate the "isness" of the flower, I come away with a much deeper sense of knowing. I have SO much more to learn, however.Quote:
Originally Posted by bae
The floral art of Ikebana requires you to think about how the flower or leaf grew, where the sun hit it and how it responded, the maturity of it, etc. It is very deliberate and thoughtful.Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
I took a year of it and had to drop out for other activities, but I really liked Ikebana and I hang out with teachers of the art in my garden clubs.
Okay---It's obvious that Faux/Lilies is a VERY(x4444)accomplished & talented artiste', in a variety of media! But yeah---Faux(I/L) have you considered learning the fine art of Deck Painting? It seems like a VERY logical and practical choice, for you. Yup.Fact o' the matter---your very first creation would prolly be worth some real money! Hope that helps you some. Here's wishing you kids a Happy Mothers Day! Attachment 5446Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
A lone heron on the beach today was trying to learn how to fish.
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He was having a bit of a bad hair day!
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Unbelievable photos bae!
Really beautiful photos, bae. Thanks so much for sharing!
Beautiful pictures! The blue plumage is gorgeous, especially against the water.
We have a heron buddy at the lake whom we've named Bruce. He's also inspired a photo or two, but certainly not of the quality of yours.
This is not about photography, but it is about what marvels the sun will provide. This Iris fulva was orange- red when it lived in the city of St. Louis getting only limited sun.
Here in Hermann In full sun it is a deep red, nearly crimson. Yesterday when I noticed it I screamed!
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Edited: oh shoot, this photo is a shade darker than the iris. It really is RED!!!
Okay----Two Things. One, is that that littlebitty town waaay up in the middle o' nowhere just lost it's leading citizen hobbyist landscape photographer! His photos of a very barren area in flyover country were amay-zeen and ahhhh-sum. Yup. Just like that, he's gone. So anyway--item two: Here's a photo I found online, just for you kids. But yeah--I'm not shaming you for your consumeristic ways, by showing this VERY graphic photo of an unsightly eyesore that lowers property values. Nope. So anyway--its a pile of old Mussdangs.
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IL, sun is amazing!!!
Wow! Beautiful, IL! What color!!!
Experimenting with a new camera today. It is not at all meant for this sort of photo, nor was the lens I was using. This is a 2359 × 2061 crop from a 11648x8736 image, the bee here just happened to be lurking and I gave it a try.
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Went up to the top of Blue Mountain in the Olympic National Park yesterday, ~6000 feet up a "fun" road/trail.
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Time for more flower show photos:
My Lilium henryi won two major awards in Chicago at the North American Lily Society: Best Species and Lily Stem with Most Blooms (40+). It was also 1st runner up for Best in show.
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Congratulations Iris!