Fun with flowers

Inspired by the beautiful colours starting to emerge, I thought I would try painting some flowers this week. I’m reasonably pleased with the results considering these are my first efforts at flowers. Obviously lots to learn but things I learned today include that a more abstract watercolour flower can be a very pleasing thing, that puddles of paint can provide their own outline, and that very fine drawings of flowers must take incredible skill, time and patience!

Here are my outputs from today in order of production: