Tulips - a pencil drawing

 

For the prompt 'Pink' in the Sketch A Day app I had to think a little, but looking at the tulips on my table I decided I just had to make them change colour a bit for my drawing. 

On black paper I made some simplified tulips using pink for the petals and green for the stems and leaves. The petals were treated with a bit of water and after that had dried a second layer of colour was added. 

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Tulips from....

 

Last week was my birthday but we could not have any visitors, due to the lockdown regulations. My brother and sister-in-law sent me a beautiful bouquet of tulips, so there still was a bit of festivity in my home.

The tulips are gone now, but from memory I have painted a few of the beautiful flowers I have enjoyed for almost a week. There are a lot of flowers in the painting, but this is not even a third of the bouquet that was on my table.

The new challenge with 'Spring' as its theme is perfectly timed for this painting. I wanted to paint these flowers to keep their colours in my home a little longer. 

For this watercolour I have chosen not to use very strong shadows, to keep the scene light and friendly. The flowers in the bouquet all had very delicate colours and they were not placed in direct sunlight. In this time of the year the sunlight is not really strong, so the shadows are soft as well. 

Again I enjoyed painting this scene and I am happy with the result.

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White (and yellow) tulips

My mother had a bouquet of tulips that at first seemed yellow, but when opened the flowers were almost white. The veins were still yellow and faded over time.
I have made some reference pictures when I visited her and decided to make a small watercolour painting.

Because the flowers are (almost) white, I have chosen a white (cellulose) paper to paint on. This paper does not allow my usual wet technique for the backgrounds I like to paint so the leaves of the flowers are more than a bit suggested.

The flowers were not painted at first and later I added the yellow veins and the greenish yellow of the bottom of the flowers. There are also some shadows and I have painted one flower that still has to open, to show the yellow colour of the buds.

This painting was done just for the fun of it and never intended to be 'a work of art'. I did enjoy painting these flowers and of course I had some practice in 'how to paint a white flower'.

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