Vintage postcard inspired watercolored flowers...

The past two weeks I've been enjoying Jeanne Oliver's classed called Reflections: Paint Your Story.  Today's art session was inspired by a video Jeanne posted about abstract flowers.  I used the vintage postcard shown below for my inspiration.  

 The sketchbook I'm using is a Dylusions small journal with a snippet of vintage ledger pasted on.  The papers aren't high quality watercolor paper but perfect for some sketching with paints.

 I used Pan Pastels to add the blue and yellow shading in the background.

 I'm loving the look of scribbly drawn lines with watercolor added.  Graphite will always be a favorite medium of mine.

 Soft and airy, such a good sketch for staying loose.

 A good day to make art.

Thanks for joining me today.

Watercolored bouquet...

I did this watercolor of a bouquet of flowers picked from my gardens around Memorial Day.  I always love to have fresh flowers sitting around and if they come from my gardens, that makes me even happier. 

I take lots of photos of my flowers, knowing that I they make great pieces of art to frame or stick in a clipboard.  I had the idea that I'd like to paint many of the photos too so I'm glad I snapped lots...especially when there is not a flower to be seen in my gardens right about now.

I sketched out my photo first in pencil.  I will always have a love of drawing.

Then I just filled in colors kind of like a coloring book.

I love doing color studies to match colors to my photos too.  I'm much better at doing that with watercolors than other paint mediums.

I'm now inspired to create a little stash of flower photos to practice my watercolors on.  

Thanks for the inspiring words on my art journey recap thus far. It's fun to visit all of my projects again.  

My first daffodils..

Last year I grew my first daffodils, such a beautiful flower.  They were the first flowers to pop up in my flower beds and boy were they a welcome sight.  Right about now I get cabin fever and start dreaming of my flowers and gardens.  It's dreary and wet outside right now so I thought today we could use some sunshine in the form of bright yellow daffodils.  

 I love to photograph picked flowers because you never know when you might want to paint or draw them.

 About this time last year I was gathering up some art supplies.  I kept them in this old tool box which I've outgrown now.

 This was one of the very first entries in my moleskin journal. I wasn't quite sure to go about it so I just started.  Such a concept.  Just start. I had to tell myself that for years and whaddya know, it clicked for me last year.

 Those first sketches are scary and probably not my best. But I'm so glad I can look back on these first pages of my art.

 Any art is good practice.  Practice is art.  I have to keep remembering that.  Those first wobbly sketches were part of my journey and I've come a good, long way since then.

Happy Friday everyone!  Some have asked about my Instagram.  My username is Mish Wooderson if you want to look me up.