Flowers and Portraits: Why I Post Flowers

Each local supermarket has flowers that inspire me to draw and paint the bouquets. An attempt at drawing 100 people in a week resulted in a gouache painting of a boy showing a flower to a chicken.
azalea, cone flowers, dogwood, impatiens, rose, rudbeckia, sedum, poppy
Each local supermarket has flowers that inspire me to draw and paint the bouquets. An attempt at drawing 100 people in a week resulted in a gouache painting of a boy showing a flower to a chicken.
Blossoms of Spring in Highland Park, New Jersey: Cherry blossoms, Magnolia buds, periwinkle, dandelions
A pink magnolia bud shines against other pink buds and the pale blue Highland Park, New Jersey sky
Three deer in one Highland Park backyard. One rabbit in another backyard. Magnolia blossom with natural yellow forsythia and with painted pale blue background.
One only has a week or two to capture the magnolia blossoms on the tree; soon they are fallen blossoms.
Periwinkle, dogwood and lilacs are in bloom.
Grape hyacinths are small cone-like flowers that grow from fall-planted bulbs. Phlox blooms in the early spring around the same time as the grape hyacinths.
Magnolia flowers are in bloom during Passover.
Daffodils bloom in time for final pre-Passover post.
Crocuses, periwinkle and nibbled by deer tulips are featured in this post on an early spring day of Today’s Flowers.