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.
5″X7″ Water-soluble pencil on paper
It is always a challenge to find a suitable subject on these weekday evenings with poor light and limited time available. I decided to have another go at this lovely pink orchid that seems to just go on forever.
5″X7″ Oil on panel
For me there is a point in every painting I do, usually about halfway through, when I ask myself: “What was I thinking? Did I really think I would be able to paint this?” On a good day, about ten minutes later it falls into place. This happens with a kind of “pop”, suddenly I can see where I am going and how to get there.
This was not one of those days.
This lovely flower has been blooming away in the window of my bedroom/studio for nearly a month, calling “paint me, paint me”. I could no longer resist but probably should have listened to my inner voices. Next time I try to paint an orchid I am going to go in even closer and concentrate on a highly magnified section, maybe if I can get that right I will be ready to try something like this again.
This painting can be purchased in my Etsy shop
7″X5″ Oil on panel
Orchids are so corny. However they do have the great advantage of lasting forever. This means I could take a couple of days to do this if I wanted but, true to the spirit of this blog, for better or for worse, here it is.
This painting can be purchased in my Etsy shop
