All this drawing that I have been doing this year has given me the confidence to paint without any pre-drawing on the paper. I do make a few quick thumbnail sketches to establish the composition.
Pink Magnolias (10 x 14 inches)
For this first painting, I wet the shape of each blossom and then worked wet in wet. I controlled the flow by drying the edges of the petals with paper towel as I worked.
White Magnolias ( 13.5 x 21.5 inches)
I began this painting the same way, wetting the blossom and working wet. When the blossoms were dry, I wet the entire back ground working right over the branches and the central bud. I poured mixtures of ultramarine blue and burnt umber, paynes grey, alizarine crimson and thalo green.
