sea urchin

© JANE MINTER

"sea urchin"
watercolour

orange roses

purple and orange roses

a couple of a few studies i did this week exploring how to paint a beautiful bouquet of orange and purple roses with lime green foliage and ivy ...

primroses

a couple of studies i made last year

primrose sketch

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crop of intial wash

i was given a small primrose by a friend yesterday... this is a crop of a quick wash i made this morning

autumn colours

jumping back to autumn .... as part of my course work i have to paint a view from the garden ...we live on the hillside in the countryside i find the views are inspiring and very challenging ..this was a section of a study i liked .

yellow pansy

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....enjoyed making this quick sketch of a solitary pansy in the garden ... almost too cold to paint outside .

FIORI Natura e simbolo dal Sciento a Van Gogh ...FLOWERS Nature and Symbol from Seventeenth Century to Van Gogh

Forlì
MUSEI SAN DOMENNICO
24th Gennia
20th Giugno 2010

as i love painting flowers i'm hoping to see this exhibition ..it opened this week .... thought it might be of interest ....adding the link here .

http://www.mostrafiori.com/introduzione.html

blue hyacinths

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"hyacinths"

watercolour 
wet in wet 

white amaryllis

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Rowland Hilder's "Painting Landscapes in Watercolour" .... "country lane" step by step

...about 25 years ago I was very lucky to visit Rowland Hilder's studio with my father in Blackheath .... I'll never forget him, his studio and his work .... he demonstrated on a full sheet how to paint a simple "flat wash" .... as we were leaving the studio he gave me my first ever watercolour book "STARTING WITH WATERCOLOUR " .... this is a step by step I painted recently of a " country lane " from "Painting Landscapes in Watercolour" by Rowland Hilder....alot of his work can be seen by goggling "images by Rowland Hilder"

cactus ii

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waiting for amaryllis to flower

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"amarylllis"
waiting for amaryllis to flower

"wisteria branch"

"art in Trieste"

....yesterday we went to see Alpina Della Martina's "LUCE" exhibition in Trieste ... it was such a pleasure to talk with her and see her paintings for the first time ... her watercolours are so incredibly beautiful ....i've added her link here
http://www.alpinadellamartina.it/

...it was also the last day of Nicoletta Costa's exhibition which was an added bonus ...my girls love her illustrations as do I .... www.nicolettacosta.com

cactus sketch

christmas rose

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"Christmas Rose"

hellebore
watercolour study painted from life

....the first christmas rose has appeared , it's cold but whilst there was some sunshine i enjoyed painting this initial wash outside in the garden .

"white christmas catus" sketch

"self - portrait" study