March Plant Parade Challenge

[Zeldaquatic]

Thank you Sanlynn for your explanation

Zelda
http://zeldavion.over-blog.com/

[tuscanny Moderator oil pastels]

Sanlynn – beautiful! Well done!
Tresgatos – Love your bird of paradise.

Christel

[KreativeK Moderator]

Viv, such lovely delicacy shown in this rough edged plant’s leaves, and the pink with green is a nice complementary choice. I’m painting more now!

San Lynn, a big wow on your soft texture within this masterpiece! How did you do the fluffy part?

Love the spiky points and vivid colors in this bird, Barbara. Most excellent and striking design!

Kay

Moderator: Watermedia, Mixed Media, Abstract/Contemporary

[LynneDe]

Here are my offerings for the ‘spiky’ challenge. These are a prototype, the first time making them…but I kinda like them, and plan to continue trying to improve them, make them more realistic…

I call this one garden weed…I haven’t been able to get it painted yet, put details into it, still hoping to get some water miscible oil paints to work with.

This one is called the fuzzy fern as compared to the smooth-leafed one I did last time. No painting done on it yet either…still waiting on the proper paints, acrylics make them look to plasticy.

I had hoped to do better this month, I got sick and my energy left. This is all I got done beforehand. Hopefully with warming weather renewing my energy, I will be onto bigger and better next month. Blessings, LynneDe

As I will never take this exact path again may I not leave a kind word unspoken or a kind deed undone. May my life count for good, may the world be better for my having been in it when the final reckoning is accomplished. Blessings, LynneDe

[LENGERT]

San Lynn, a big wow on your soft texture within this masterpiece! How did you do the fluffy part?
Thanks Kay. I guess you are talking about the centre? I drew out the general design, basically just lines curving down. I then put resist in dots along the line. Next painted lighter green over the whole thing and some in the petals do give it harmony. Then added darker green where I thought it should be. Removed resist, softened edges by using water over the whole area. Added more dark in some areas. Then brightened where needed with the titanium white. Hope this makes sense.

sanlynn

[LynneDe]

Now that I’ve been able to post mine, I’ve had a chance to look at the ones posted thus far. Amazing how ‘spiky’ the world of plants are…at least amazing to me.

Shane, I felt that those thorns were ready to stick into me, the red-thorned one especially took my eye. I used to have a small collection of cacti, and that one just reminded me of those, and oh, the pain when I moved them around…I could feel it in my fingers when I just looked at your “pain”tings…awesome.

Christel, I liked both the bird of paradise and the protea so much. I’ve been watching a program on flower arranging on YouTube/Facebook (they switch back and forth) and they had a protea that had a flat face on it, as well as some like the one you did. Amazed at the beauty of yours…looks so real.

Zelda, that white orchid is amazing to my heart. I’ve never seen one in person, but your painting again is lovely.

Imelda, I really like the daisy/dahlia you did is just lovely. Speaks to me of summer days.

Tam-Tam, Your painting reminds me of the lupines we see along the roadsides in our area. Daisies and lupines…lovely. Makes it feel like summer to me.

Margaretta, your lilies bring me to a place in my mind like an island, with spidery flowers and greenery all over it…beautiful and mysterious.

Kay – the yucca is spiky but tall and regal also. I love the colors you used in it.

Eyepaint – Your bird of paradise is so nicely highlighted in front of the stained glass window. Bright and light and airy.

Vivian – The agave you did with the white edges and tinged in pink…makes it look more inviting than I think agave really is…I’m grateful I am not touching it…but it makes me want to try.

Sanlynn, I recently heard of sea holly, this is amazing to see after just hearing about it. The person I heard about it from was demonstrating making it with gum paste…now seeing yours, I wonder if I will ever see it in person…it almost looks like it is done on parchment paper…something I used to dabble in….lovely.

Tresgatos, the blues in the background makes one truly feel that this bird of paradise is in the sky, flying free. I love the boldness of it.

Oh, how I hope I have not forgotten someone! These are so varied and so beautiful…and how they feed my soul. Thank you one and all.

Blessings and gratitude, LynneDe

As I will never take this exact path again may I not leave a kind word unspoken or a kind deed undone. May my life count for good, may the world be better for my having been in it when the final reckoning is accomplished. Blessings, LynneDe

[tuscanny Moderator oil pastels]

LynnDe – love your leaves! Especially the fern leaf!

Christel

[Margaretta]

I’m so looking forward to Viv’s gallery; it will be really bright and eye-catching I’m sure.
Shane: What sensitivity with your flowing colours and sensitive drawings! Your spikes are really fine and your paintings have a great sense of depth and other-worldliness.
Tuscanny: Both the strelitzia and the proteus are beautifully drawn and coloured. My favourite is the proteus which seems truly to have a 3D effect.
Elsaquatic: Your spider-lily is glorious. It could be an underwater creature or from outer space. But it is definitely a flower as, unlike me, you remembered to add the pistil and stamens! By the way, have you eaten cooked cordyline root? Thank you for the name of the lily bulb. Is it really poisonous?
Rundun: What a dramatic star! I so like this spiky flower jumping out at me from the canvas.
TumblingT: I love the range of amethyst colours with the green and white. I would enjoy wafting through that stunning scene.
KreativeK: In your picture the areas with the absence of colour cleverly speaks volumes about the desert and temperature. The stark yuccas add to the harshness of the hot conditions.
Eyepaint: Your strelitzia painting would make a magnificent stained glass window.
Vivien: Please do make the gallery; it’s always a joy and I wouldn’t know where to begin! Your agave is a mastery of light and prickles. A fabulous picture.
Lengert: This sea holly must be from outer space. The painting is a beautiful contrast between soft and firm, light and strong. Oh those prickles! The flower really glows; it is surely a lethal stunner!
Tresgatos: Such impact and vibrance! A magnificent strelitzia!
Lynne De: Remarkable modelling and what a great contribution to the theme! You have such patience and your work has so much finesse.

Through striving, to the stars.:confused:

[KreativeK Moderator]

Such impressive 3D works, LynnDe!

Kay

Moderator: Watermedia, Mixed Media, Abstract/Contemporary

[Shanec]

Lovely flowers LynneDe, they look so real.

Shane

https://artbyshanec.com

[Vivien Maloney]

Here’s your March Plant Parade Gallery of “Spikey” Plants.
Beautiful paintings everyone and many thanks to Margaretta for Hosting this interesting Plant Parade.

Animal & Wildlife, Floral & Botanical, Watermedia

[tuscanny Moderator oil pastels]

Thanks for a beautiful gallery, Vivien!

Christel

[ArtsyMom Guide]

Although I wasn’t able to join in this month, the gallery looks wonderful and hope to join in next month. Thanks to Viv for the beautiful gallery.

LIL

[eyepaint]

Thank you for the gallery!!

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[Margaretta]

Thank you Vivien for the lovely gallery. I really enjoy seeing all the different approaches to the subject presented together.

Through striving, to the stars.:confused:

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