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Summer Flowers 3

Sarah Lynch — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:07:16 +0000

8"X6" Acrylic on board

The garden isn't at its best at this time of year but I managed to find this bunch of assorted daisies, phlox and mallow. There is also a kind of white berry which I remember from my childhood, but can't for the life of me name. I didn't plant it, it seems to have volunteered.

Geraniums on the Patio

Sarah Lynch — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:01:11 +0000

7"X5" Acrylic on board

It has been a busy few weeks, with a daughter getting married and two boys off to first year university. I haven't been very productive.

I have always been very fond of geraniums, especially in pots. I keep them in the basement over the winter, they only need to be watered about once a month and in the spring they have a head start.

These ones are bravely withstanding my tomato plants attempts to take over the world. I am afraid I rather let them get away from me (the tomatoes that is), but they are at last producing fruit and I can't bring myself to discourage them now.

Daisies

Sarah Lynch — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:56:30 +0000

5.5"X3.5" Pen & wash in moleskine

Still not very productive, maybe it is the weather but I can't seem to settle to anything. I have been doing some sketching and have just gotten around to scanning some of it, so I may post some over the next few days. I enjoy using this combination of fountain pen and waterbrush with a Staedtler pigment liner. It seems to suit my need for simplicity right now.

I have almost finished painting the house, just finishing the back porch right now. There is still that bathroom dormer that I am trying not to think about. As far as I can see it can only be reached by standing on the 45 degree angle of the roof. It isn't so much the getting up there as the getting down again that bothers me. To paraphrase Rincewind " it isn't so much the heights that bother me as the depths".

Canada Day

Sarah Lynch — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:49:17 +0000

5"X7" Oil on board

I finally finished painting my porch so I can actually use it as a porch and sit outside to paint!

I have day-lilies all along the front fence and they are very jolly at this time of year. This is the first actual "plein air" oil I have done in a long time. I really must try to do more.

Orchid

Sarah Lynch — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:06:27 +0000

This tiny orchid travelled back with me from Puerto Rico. I pulled it off an orange tree and it was in a pocket of my shorts. I have been nurturing it for four months and it has finally repaid me with this delightful little flower, only a centimetre or so across. The pencil gives some idea of the scale.

Snowdrops

Sarah Lynch — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:48:44 +0000

6"X4" Watercolour on paper And now for something completely different. It is time to get back to matters closer at hand. I haven't been working much in watercolour and I thought that these little snowdrops, almost buried still in last year's leaves, would be a good place to start. I used some hand made paper that I bought at the Tate gift shop last year, it makes a change and I really need to practice more, especially doing deep saturated colour like this one. I see that I just acquired my 50th "follower" and I now occasionally have over 80 subscribers according to Feedburner (the number fluctuates wildly, but rarely goes below 75 and has been as high as 82). I find myself to be both gratified and somewhat intimidated by this. I hope you all find something interesting here, I haven't been posting as regularly for the past few months as I did in my first two years, but perhaps that is a good thing!

Etsy Treasury – IRIS Ridge

Sarah Lynch — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:01:09 +0000

It is always nice to be included in an Etsy Treasury, this is a nice one: Etsy Treasury – IRIS Ridge

Daisies

Sarah Lynch — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:16:08 +0000

5.5"X3.5" Mixed media in paper

Shasta Daisies on the patio. Not much to say really.

I have been wasting far too much time this evening playing with the new Picassa face recognition programme. My husband, the Mac man, says that Apple has had this for a while, but it is new to me. It is uncannily accurate some of the time but has a lot of difficulty with my sons. Like the rest of the world, it doesn't seem to be able to tell them apart. Most of the time I don't have any difficulty, even fuzzy little images with half of the face missing. Sometimes even I can't manage it though, so I just guess and come back to it later.

Bumble Bee & Girasol

Sarah Lynch — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:38:54 +0000

7"X5" Acrylic on board

Jerusalem Artichokes have nothing to do with Jerusalem or artichokes. Tasting somewhat like artichokes (it is the root which is eaten) the early european settlers called them girasols because of the way they turn to the sun like their cousins the sunflowers.

Ours must be close to three and a half metres (twelve feet) high and are much loved by the bees.

Nasturtiums

Sarah Lynch — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:35:31 +0000

From Sarah Lynch

(revision: this image did not upload properly last night, I have updated it now) 10"X16" Watercolour on paper This has been a fairly unproductive week (for painting anyway) so I am digging into the archives again. I have always loved nasturtiums, especially the old fashioned rambling kind. Strangely enough it seems to be hard to find the right kind of seeds, plenty of dwarf varieties "guaranteed not to grow more than 12" high". Why bother? Surely the whole point of nasturtiums is to have them sprawling all over everything. I did pick up some of the right kind of seeds when I was in England this Spring but I planted them awfully late and they still haven't flowered. I suppose I might get something out of them yet.