art – Nannie RaRa

Recently I’ve been painting leaves and flowers in watercolour, following workshops held at Firstsite in Colchester with Lisa Temple-Cox.

Cone from a Scot’s pine

Autumn cyclamen

One of my favourite flowers, I love it that the flowers appear before the leaves

Fuschia

The fuschia are still blooming when most other flowers have finished.

Gorse

Gorse is in flower any time of the year.

Rose hips

Rose hips were used to make a syrup full of vitamin C.

Ivy

Ivy is one of the plants associated with Christmas decorations, but it is around all year .

Nerine

Nerines are another bulb that fowers in the autumn. With their tall stems, the bright pink flowers brighten up any dull day.

Oak leaf

Autumn and the oak is the last to lose its leaves. This is an example of the chlorophyll gradually leaching from the leaf.

Holly

The holly and its berries, so very much part of Christmas. The leaves are so shiny – I find them very difficult to paint.

I hope you enjoyed these paintings.

Lately I’ve been doing watercolour painting after a break when I couldn’t find the inspiration to pick up a brush. I’ve been out with my camera taking photos, then turning them into paintings.

I’ve found the more I paint, the better my technique becomes. Each picture has something I think I’ve done well and lots of places where I could improve.

Here are a few of the paintings.

This painting of people on the beach was inspired after doing a jigsaw puzzle of the four seasons of Peter Brueghel the Younger. I like all the characters in his paintings.

This painting is of a disused railway building. The area around it has been turned into a beautiful community garden tended by volunteers. I enjoyed painting the building and I feel shadows and depth are improving.

This painting is of a boy walking on a bridge over a stream near where I live. Whenever I walk past the stream the bridge is always in a different place, moved by the local children.

This painting of a man walking his dog on a path through the trees is one of my favourites. I particularly like the simplicity of it. Quite often I’ll overdo things.

I often see dog walkers on my early morning walks. These ladies had been walking their dogs and stopped to have a chat. I like the way their poses are similar, and that all three dogs are watching me.

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing these paintings. Do let me know what you think.

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Nature paintings