I spent my evening yesterday working on this design using my different magnolia elements. I ended up finishing it late enough that I couldn’t even tell if it was any good so I was pleasantly surprised when I looked at it again today and found that it actually worked pretty well.
To start with I stuck with the original colours from my watercolours but I found it looked slightly too cold to capture the true colours of the original plant I based it on. Once I recoloured it to bring out more of the yellows and dark greens I found it worked much better.
Next I’m planning on combining the magnolia flowers and leaves with some architectural elements, as at Tyntesfield this magnolia grows near to the windows and around a door. I’d also like to try and use the flowers for some block prints but I need to work out how I’m going to do that and what kind of scale I’d want them first.
I should probably learn not to spend too much time staring at Photoshop when I’m already half asleep but I have to make the most of it when I have the time and inclination. It also worked out pretty nicely I think.
Fi this is beautiful????
Thank you. I’m just glad all the time spent painting things with watercolours paid off as I hadn’t tried it in years and still feel like I’ve barely just got an idea of what I’m doing.
There are more ways to kill an orchid than there are to get one to actually stay alive, let alone bloom. They die if they don’t like their soil, or their water, or the amount of sun, or the amount of shade, or the environment in general, sometimes they die if they just plain don’t like you. Orchids are the pickiest plant in the world, and they would rather be dead, then put up with shit they don’t like. For those of the human race that can actually keep an orchid alive, you have been chosen, and you should be proud.
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