Painting flowers in watercolour

This is another recovered blog, from those lost when my website was updated I hope you find the stages I go through, in order to make a watercolour, interesting and informative.

Recently I’ve been playing around with watercolours, inspired, as ever, by a vase full of flowers. I love just looking and trying to capture the essence of flowers. I think that we can make art from the simplest motif and I always seem to start with the most prosaic interpretation, before having some fun and creating new images, with a little more feeling and expression I have attached a few images, which I hope go some way to explaining that process. Most are wet-in-wet watercolours apart from one, which has pastel added. Please let me know what you think.