Years ago our neighbor, Thomas, gave us a piece of his Desert Rose. Although he passed a couple years ago, he lives on in his gift to us. With the beautiful weather, it's in full bloom. This is as of yesterday's date.
Worked while Neal and Travis closed on their first home. Was my way of keeping busy as I waited to hear how things went for them.
Days later, my flowers are still going strong to include the roses. Here are two more drawings I've completed.
Each worked differently. The lily was worked off the value drawing and then adding color layer with layer blending mode. The rose was worked without a value layer using brush tools to color on separate layers for each component.
For mother's day, the guys got me this beautiful bouquet of roses and lilies. There were 12 of these multicolored roses with two full stems of lilies. The fragrance from this arrangement is absolutely heavenly!
Rose Drawing...
I was going through past drawings and paintings when I came across some of the portraits I had worked. I felt this desire to practice skin again but hadn't decided what I wanted to do yet............not until Paige sent me photos of a hibiscus her mother bought for her recently.
In one of her photos, this caught my attention right off and was perfect for what I was wanting to practice.
