We dined on our first garden fresh broad beans last night. After I painted these this morning, I ate them my favourite way - raw.
I've wasted an extraordinary amount of time lately struggling with a watercolour of a paeony. Pink is not my favourite colour but the bloom came from two gorgeous bunches given to me by friends. I didn't give enough thought to the palette or the background and no matter what I did the flower looked pasted on. Finally I threw it in a bathtub of water, gave it a good scrubbing and finished it off with dry watercolour pencils. My first Mixed Media which I present with mixed feelings.
31cm x 25cm Mixed Media
13 comments:
Good save on the flowers. They really look good! The beans are great too. You are living my dream! Ah to run away to Italy! We bicycled across Italy a few years ago. So hard to leave for home!
Brian - Thank you :) Where exactly did you cycle? I've just been enjoying your blog and sent a link from your tragic tomato story to HWEM (He who encourages me). As a tomato fancier he'll be fascinated and extremely sympathetic, I'm sure.
I think that peony is very successful, it has that soft, downy texture and a nice range of pinks and purples. Those beans look very tasty too!
I think it's very successful too
and though I hate broad beans - they do look good enough to eat :)
Sometimes when we get frustrated we do something that really helps. This looks good with the dry watercolor pencils added. It looks great. Those beans look like they're very tasty. I agree with Brian. You're living my dream in Italy too. Ciao!!
che bella la fiore and I think those are the beans I eat roasted with chile and lime! I sturggle with flowers and pink is hard for me..I never get it to look 'real' Not a waste of time...you spent time creating!
Hi Robyn -
Well that peony looks to me just like the peonies on the photos which i took yesterday at Kew Gardens. I definitely agree - "Good Save". It's amazing that a good bath will sometimes do for a watercolour! ;)
I hope you'll enjoy the 'Interior Landscape of Flowers' month! :D
BTW - those broad beans look really edible to me too!
Thank you all for your morale boosting comments. They are really appreciated.
Marta - I'd love your recipe for the chilli and lime broad beans.
Katherine - I can't believe I'm doing this, but yes, I'm coming along for the ride with you and Georgia O'Keeffe.
This is beautiful inspite of your struggles!!
lol. I don't have a recipe...I buy them that way as a snack. Mexicans love chili and lime on just about everything: all fruits and many veggies like cucumber, tomato, even coconut! I imagine the beans are roasted in some sort of oil and dusted with chili powder and lime juice.
Lovely.
I had a bouquet of these with some Irises recently.
What a gorgeous peony - what counts is the end product. the broad bean are lovely - they look perfect on the ivory sketchbook paper, and I love your layout.
Thank you Vivien, Lindsay, Casey K and Casey. Sorry it's taken me so long to express my thanks.
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