practice

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Something weird wrong with this paper, but I plunged on till the end.

Painted after a sky tutorial by Andy Evansen. He lives out in one of prairie states and the skies he paints are amazing.

Below is a small sketch from another of Andy's lessons: this one on connecting shapes. I think this would have been more successful if I'd used more water and really let the paint flow--i tried to control it.

Also: wish I'd grayed those blues.

daffodils

A little messing about yesterday, just freely painting some daffodils in my sketchbook.

Went a little too far on the daffodils above.

daffodils

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Daffodils are beginning to fade.

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tulips

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Planted tulip bulbs last fall because I love the tulips paintings of Elizabeth Blackadder.

They're coming up now.

Getting hammered by rain today: hope my daffodils and tulips survive.

more daffodils

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I haven't been painting enough daffodils!

Feeling a little discouraged: my daffodils aren't turning out very well.

But they are still blooming in the yard and I'm going to try to take advantage of that before it's too late.

Also have some tulips to paint!