I have wanted to participate in The First of the Month photo meme, in which you post the same subject photographed on the first of the month. Well, I will be happy if I get the photo to be within the first week of the new month.
I hope you enjoy my rhododendron photos – you will be seeing more in May.
April Fools a few days late – have you ever seen a crocus with a red filament? I haven’t. And the petals didn’t have blue streaks, either.
My watercolor is of Raritan Avenue, between North Third and North Second Avenues. One of the stores is Jerusalem Pizza. The one on the end, by the big tree, used to be Charlie Brown’s, which went out of business. A new restaurant appears to be opening in its place. Here is a sketch I did prior to this watercolor.
Yesterday we visited Rutgers Gardens. It is mostly winter bare, but if you look carefully, you can find some signs of spring.
These plants with red berries were growing by a stream.
Red buds were in many of the trees. Some of the trees at Rutgers Gardens have little signs stating what type of tree it is, but most don’t.
And more red buds in trees!
If you take red and white on a paint palette and mix them together, you get pink, like the pink bud of this saucer magnolia tree.
For more red, visit Ruby Tuesday:
A continuation of my Raritan Avenue studies – here is a photo on top of a drawing. I worked on adding watercolor to the drawing today. I plan to post the watercolor in the middle of this week.
This is same as above, converted to black and white. One can see the lamppost in the drawing doesn’t match with the photo – no matter, it matches in the “finished” watercolor.