On July 24 Bunchberry Nursery in Upper Clements hosted the second annual "Painting lilies by the bunch" event in the beautiful gardens surrounding the nursery. The lilies were a little late coming on this year but there was still lots of colour and an incredible variety of day lilies to delight visitors.
I am continuing to explore painting with no pencil drawing on the paper - just wet the shapes and jump right in! This is an exciting method of working and when it works, magic happens. I also get a lot of duds but as I always say, "moving right along ..."
This one was painted a few days in advance to get some practice in before I had to do it with an audience. It is probably the best of the bunch - you never know what you are going to get.
A ribbon lily that Jill is yet to identify
I used some drawing to start this one.
hard at work
