Roses perfect happiness

Arches paper 50 x 50 cm

Watercolour

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So the story of the roses painting is nearing an end. I am planning to get some prints created of the final image once I'm happy with it.  I have loved every minute of this painting.  It has many happy memories for me of trips out, a sunny summer, conversations and friends.



Work in progress

Things have been slow, due to work and family commitments.  I've been able to put in some more roses from the gorgeous photographs I took at the end of June.  Of course there's loads more to go, this is really only the top layer.  It's the complexity of these flowers that makes me want to paint them.  Every one is given the maximum amount of time, an individual identity brought to life.

Rose

Rose

A5 size

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Can you guess what I've painted the rose onto?  Not the usual kind of paper... :)
It was nice to talk to the buyer (a man from Cambridge) and explain this piece today.



Rejoicing desert roses

Watercolour

A3 sized on cartridge paper

This was the other part of the stamp I made at art class.  To continue the rose theme, I chose

Isaiah 35 - specifically "the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose; it shall blossom abundantly and rejoice..."  24 roses on this piece.

A dozen roses?

Watercolour

A3 sized on cartridge paper

At the art course, we did printing, this was a random shape taken from one of my sketches on the first day; it reminded me of a rose.  So, I decided to print a random pattern and paint on top of it with watercolour the inside petals of a rose.

A dozen roses, or should it really be a bakers dozen?