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A little windy again - and warmer - more scents and more experiments in capturing the flowers :)
I pre-mixed some green to keep leaves less active and mixed colors for flowers right on the page - again - using whatever I could find - in this case - sponge, palm of my hand and some spray and blow ;)
Black cat is not included in this image :) But the story goes like this: I was painting comfortably in the park, my companions took a different road to the same destination and I decided to paint this little place.
And suddenly (about half-way in the painting) I started hearing strange noises. As if someone (very large and dangerous) was going through the woods with no consideration to the path at all... sounds were getting closer and closer... I quickly looked at my set-up assessing what will have to be dumped if I have to face a running away option and what can be used to make me look large and dangerous (in case if it's a mountain lion :)
And then he came - huge, absolutely black with red gold showing when he walked into the sun patch - THE BLACK CAT! He was BIG, but not panther big - so I decided to see how he will interact with me :)
He was absolutely... god-like there - did not spare even the smallest amount of attention to me, walked as if the whole world belongs to him and it's fate is in his paws. He looked at the paper, went around it, sniffed my paints and brushes, and went ahead...
And when his tail disappeared behind the turn, all of a sudden lots of noises came back - as if someone turned them on - all kinds of birds appeared and started eating this and that around me, jumping and singing... and because of this sound effect lots of things started to look much more inviting - lights brighter, darks more colorful, lizards greener, blue jays - almost purple ;)
Huge flowers on very long stems with beautiful, very real and familiar smell that you notice from afar and walk in anticipation around the corner...
They are hard to catch in the wind and I tried them on hot press paper with different tools - from fingers to leaves... I got hooked and came back the next day to paint them again ;)
You know how you start something and you are not sure how much time you have? When I look at Gabi Campanario works I always think that notes make these works especially interesting for me. But I rarely try to make them :)
This time I had a regular ballpoint pen with me and a companion who retired for a minute - so I did a quick drawing and added lots of notes ;) But then it happened so that I had some extra time. And then some extra. And ended up with this :)
I fell in love with these irises after bloom - so you will see a few more soon ;)
