Painting 145. Yellow Butterfly on Red Geranium II
(Watercolor heightened with colored pencil, 10x7 Arches Cold Pressed 140 lb paper)
Painting 144. Yellow Butterfly on Red Geranium
(Oil Pastel, 9x12 Sennelier Oil Pastel paper)
Yesterday we had a taste of summer's heat before a cold front moved in and blew it all away, but the seed was planted, and warm sunshine and sunshine-y butterflies were in my imagination waiting to get out. I'm also taking a watercolor journaling class with Laure Ferlita called An Imaginary Trip to the Garden, and part of our assignment was butterflies. After I finished the journaling assignment, I took one of the extra photos and got my oil pastels out...intense color and a fleeting impression was what I had in mind, and painting 144, Yellow Butterfly on Red Geranium was a the result. After that, I created a very loose and impressionistic watercolor painting, then heightened it with colored pencil, which became painting 145...
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