Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Whidbey Wild Weeds


These four watercolor sketches of noxious wild weeds are from the fields/woodlands on Whidbey. I placed them in a vase so I could sketch them with graphite on watercolor paper and then paint. I used walnut ink for the text so it harmonized with the colors of the paint. The weeds are sour weed; it gives the red color to the open green and yellow fields; geranium robertianum found in shady gardens and woodlands; western starflower clustered in shady areas under trees; woodland strawberry a ground cover in open areas in the woodlands. This was a fun challenge.

5 comments:

  1. What a wonderful grouping! Nicely done, Lois. Also really like your delightfully written notes about each.

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  2. Lois, your weeds are the prettiest weeds I have ever seen, and believe me, I know weeds....
    Barbara Mearing

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  3. Thanks, Barbara and kris. Sometimes weeds are good and add some color to the earth. Kris, you must have really good eyes because I can't read the fine print of the text on my computers.

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  4. These are so delicate and lovely, Lois! They don't seem like weeds at all. Beautifully done.

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  5. A "weed" is only in the eye of the beholder - but you've made them beautiful, Lois. Lovely work!

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