Tulips

I was given beautiful tulips by a friend recently. It's not often we have flowers in this house. Although I love flowers. I just never think of buying them. So they had to be painted. I did a drawing (with inktense pencils and soft pastels) in my Fake Journal. And then, two watercolours.

The colours and the effect worked out much better in the one on the right. I was more careful in how I defined the petals. I need to work on painting better leaves, though.

And I might crop it...

Or try something more abstract. But that's another day's work.