Hi Everyone,
Squill or Scilla--Garden flower
Red Trillium, I think
What a difference a week makes. So happy to see the wild flowers growing complete with buds that will bloom soon.
Blood Root in bloom. Happened upon these yesterday. :) The froggies were a wooing in the marsh. I have video but I moved too fast, so it will make you dizzy. The sound itself is something else. The wooing only goes on for a day usually, so I was lucky to be there. If I can figure out how to smooth out the video I will post it.
Also, a lot of geese were on the move. All my life I have been watching geese. In my life time this is the first time that many geese flew directly over our heads. They usually veer away. That can only mean that they haven't been shot at.
Happy turtles finally got a day in the sun.
Put a little Plein Air kit together on the weekend. I've had the wee box for a long time.
I can fit all that in, except for the water bottle. To the left is dried gouache.
Will leave the gouache out. I don't get along with gouache all that well. I need more time to practice using it--that's for sure.
Willing to try again Plein Air painting again this year. Last year I faffed about feeling out of place. I suppose you get used to it after awhile. I use a clip board that sits on my lap for an easel. ( Not my original idea.) It does not slip around with the clip side down.
A sketchbook can be used as well; just fasten it to the board with an elastic.
Or for no fuss, just clip the paint and water container to a sketchbook.
Green tea steeping.
Snuck up on this hungry sweetie pie. We know each other.
I prefer to think of us as friends, but really I am barely tolerated, especially since I didn't have many seeds. The nerve of some people!
Poor Queen Mary definitely got a raw deal.
The 17th century drawing I worked from had the Queen looking quite cross, so I tweaked it a little for fun.
(I left replies on my last post. Thanks so much for your comments.)
