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Back to Nature...[this is just for my friends overseas...who miss my journals with drawings & poems[apparently!]..so here you go...]
I actually hate cut flowers...the look of flowers as they decay is really depressing...but a friend of ours grows these;they are very odd,& the colurs change as they die...so I thought I'd paint the different stages(I know the colours look odd...but they're true to life!)..so at least some of it's beauty is preserved...
An excuse to spam you all with some of my favourite roses poems for Spring[before we go all gothy for Halloween..]

[Watercolour on Arches rag paper,border in Photoshop]

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting"

[Robert Herrick ]

Description
Back to Nature...[this is just for my friends overseas...who miss my journals with drawings & poems[apparently!]..so here you go...]
I actually hate cut flowers...the look of flowers as they decay is really depressing...but a friend of ours grows these;they are very odd,& the colurs change as they die...so I thought I'd paint the different stages(I know the colours look odd...but they're true to life!)..so at least some of it's beauty is preserved...
An excuse to spam you all with some of my favourite roses poems for Spring[before we go all gothy for Halloween..]

[Watercolour on Arches rag paper,border in Photoshop]

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting"

[Robert Herrick ]