From Alison’s garden
Posted: July 1, 2025 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bouquet, coloured pencil, flowers, neocolor 12 CommentsHappy Canada Day! I usually choose some red flowers to paint on July 1, but this bouquet from Alison’s garden was just too beautiful to pass up. I can’t name everything that’s in here but it’s exactly the kind of arrangement I love — a little wild looking and different from every angle. Thank you for thinking of me, Alison.
Since I haven’t even unpacked my watercolours yet (lots of garden projects to catch up on at my house), I decided to work in water-soluble pencils. I drew on a sheet of HP paper with a green pencil and then filled in with both coloured pencils and NeoColor sticks from Caran D’Ache. At the end I touched the wet brush to a few areas but mostly it’s just pencil scribbles. And if I have time before the bouquet fades, I may just unpack my palette and try it in watercolour.
Happy Canada Day! I love your lush and wild bouquet of color!
So summery and beautiful! Thank you for the inspiration Shari.
I’ve never tried any color sticks and will give them a try. Were the colored pencils you used by chance the Derwent Inktense pencils? Thanks again.
So beautiful, interesting ideas for water soluble pencils.
Flowers bring such joy and inspiration- you were inspired to paint them, and we get the joy of seeing your efforts!
Really interesting, love the depth, patterns, colour mixes and that daisy!
Happy Canada Day, thanks for the flowers!
So lovely
‘just pencil scribbles’–but such lovely scribbles, Shari!
This is beautiful, Shari, and Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦
So beautiful, Shari. You really capture the feeling of the bouquet and
HP paper. Do you mean the kind of paper we have in our inkjet printers?
Because I am always in awe may I ask for an idea of how much time this beauty took you to complete?
I wonder if the bouquet is as beautiful as your today’s offering. 😁
This really took my breath away! No words …
Oh, that is just beautifully fresh and wild.
I wrote but it didn’t go through. This is not the first time. Wonder what happened. If this goes thru, just wanted to say that I was happy to see you using watercolor pencils. I love using them. And your flowers are always beautiful.