I decided that I wanted to do a pen and ink watercolor of a fuchsia colored Cyclamen. I had never seen one before and on our first trip to London, I saw them in window boxes everywhere. At first I thought they were fake flowers because it was so cold and they were so stunning and perfect. I saw some in window boxes outside of a pub and finally went in and asked them what type of flower they were because, spending most of my youth and adulthood in Virginia, for some reason, I had never seen any grown there.
Anyway, I wanted to try my hand at painting them. The above photo does not do the painting justice as I scanned it and the scanner did not seem to pick up the beautiful fuchsia color well. The framed photo below is what it actually looks like. This is a 5X7 and fits in an 8X10 frame with a mat. It is painted on 90lb/190gsm premium watercolor paper.
Ok, so now I have a fuchsia colored Cyclamen and I wasn't sure if I was happy with it or not, so I decided to do something different with the same drawing - I'm not sure this would be considered an abstract, but it is definitely different. I decided to put a triangle in the center and only paint what was inside the triangle. The rest I just left my pen and ink drawing. I'm not sure what I think about it, the jury is still out! And again the scan of it does not show the true color of the fuchsia I used but the framed photo does. This also is a 5X7 and fits in an 8X10 frame with a mat. It is painted on 90lb/190gsm premium watercolor paper.
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