Showtime

From one of the flowers in my garden

Showtime

on Saunders Waterford paper, 140 Rough - and size, 15" x11"

It's a wonderful time of year in the garden, flowers are blossoming and there's beauty all around. When I need to be quiet, I sit outside and the garden offers me calm. I've needed that since the beginning of this year and I'm delighted to say that hubs continues to improve. Thanks to all of you for your continued good wishes.

Reach for the Sky

Here's my finished clematis painting..

and because its growing steadily upwards, I decided to call it :

Reach for the Sky

this painting will be added to my permanent gallery site
Pat Elliott Paintings

Clematis - the next stage

Here's the next stage in my clematis.

I've removed the masking and painted the first washes on the flowers.
There are some more details to paint on the flowers, more dark greens to go into the foliage and the foreground leaves and the rusty structure to paint.
Then she'll be done :)

Clematis

Out in my garden, I have some different varieties of clematis growing.
This particular one I thought would make a nice painting.


Here's the pencil drawing




then I got carried away painting and didn't photograph as much as I should for a work in progress, so you can see its quite far along.
When you are winning with greens - you don't stop!


If I was going to paint the obelisk black as it is in real life, I wouldn't have masked it. ( the masking is blue)
But I have in my mind to make it a rusty metal structure, to add a little more interest.